get time difference between 2 dates

[vanquish12]

I need to get the time difference between two dates. Here's what I have 

function getTodayDate(){

    $today = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

    return $today;
}

function checkTimeDifference($previousTime){

    $today = $previousTime->diff(new DateTime(getTodayDate()));

    $minutes = $today->days * 24 * 60;
    $minutes += $today->h * 60;
    $minutes += $today->i;

    return $minutes . ' minutes';

}

however it's complaining about the call to diff "Call to a member function diff() on a non-object"

[Barand]

Are you passing $previous time as a string value to your function? Your code expects a DateTime object.

 

Hint:

$today = new DateTime();

will give the current date time without any argument.

[vanquish12]

thanks, that was it!