Display number of days between a date and today's date

[the_toolman]

Hi,

I have a job listing website which displays the closing date of applications using:

$expired_date

(This displays a date such as 31st December 2019)

I am trying to show a countdown/number of days left until the closing date.

I have put this together, but I can't get it to show the number of days.

                    <?php 
                    $expired_date = get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_job_expires', true );
                    $hide_expiration = get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_hide_expiration', true );
                    if(empty($hide_expiration )) {
                        if(!empty($expired_date)) { ?>
                                <span><?php echo date_i18n( get_option( 'date_format' ), strtotime( get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_job_expires', true ) ) ) ?></span>
                    
                    <?php
                                        $datetime1 = new DateTime($expired_date);
                                        $datetime2 = date('d');
                                        $interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
                                        echo $interval->d;

                     ?>
                        <?php }
                    } 
                    ?>

Can anyone help me with what I have wrong?

Many thanks

[Barand]

consider

<?php
$dt1 = new DateTime();
$dt2 = new DateTime('2019-12-31');

echo $dt1->diff($dt2)->d . '<br>';          //--> 24
echo $dt1->diff($dt2)->days . '<br>';       //--> 177
?>

"d" gives days as in 6 months 24 days.

"days" gives the total number of days

[the_toolman]

Thank you very much

I modified it to show just the days with the $expired_date variable:

Quote

                    <?php
                    $dt1 = new DateTime();
                    $dt2 = new DateTime($expired_date);
                    echo $dt1->diff($dt2)->days;
                    ?>