calculate days between 2 dates in php code example

Example 1: how to calculate days between two dates in php

<?php
function dateDifference($start_date, $end_date)
{
    // calulating the difference in timestamps 
    $diff = strtotime($start_date) - strtotime($end_date);
     
    // 1 day = 24 hours 
    // 24 * 60 * 60 = 86400 seconds
    return ceil(abs($diff / 86400));
}
 
// start date 
$start_date = "2016-01-02";
 
// end date 
$end_date = "2016-01-21";
 
// call dateDifference() function to find the number of days between two dates
$dateDiff = dateDifference($start_date, $end_date);
 
echo "Difference between two dates: " . $dateDiff . " Days ";
?>

Example 2: find days with name between two dates in php

$from_date ='01-01-2013';
$to_date ='05-01-2013';

$from_date = new DateTime($from_date);
$to_date = new DateTime($to_date);

for ($date = $from_date; $date <= $to_date; $date->modify('+1 day')) {
  echo $date->format('l') . "\n";
}