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Hi,

Im trying to calculate days between two dates and add that to the php code below.


I have this code that pulls records from my database and outputs it as json.

<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "xxxxx";
$password = "xxxxx";
$dbname = "xxxxx";
$connect = mysqli_connect("localhost", "xxxxx", "xxxxx","xxxxx");
$sql = "SELECT * FROM solstice";
$result = mysqli_query($connect, $sql);
$json_array = array();
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$json_array[] = $row;
}
/*echo '<pre>';
print_r('records:');
echo '</pre>';*/
echo json_encode($json_array);
?>

Basically I was thinking something like this but I don't know how I can add this to php above that produces json . This information is calculated on the fly. I need to add TotalTime and Date3

$Date1_ts = strtotime($row['Date1']); //Timestamp
$Date1_str = date("M-d-Y", $Date1_ts); //String in format MMM-DD-YYYY
$TotalTime = floor((time() - $Date1_ts)/(60*60*24)) . ' days';//Total in days
$start_ts = strtotime($row['Date1']);
$end_ts = strtotime($row['Date2']);
$date_diff = ($end_ts - $start_ts);
$Date3= ($date_diff>0) ? floor($date_diff/ (60*60*24)) : ''; // days difference from start to finish

I would be really grateful if someone could help me with this.
Thank you.

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First please use the code icon (<>) and select PHP for your code. It makes it much easier to read.

Once you convert dates to 'strtotime' date calculations are easy. You can simply subtract the 2 dates and convert the result back to a date format.

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<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "xxxxx";
$password = "xxxxx";
$dbname = "xxxxx";
$connect = mysqli_connect("localhost", "xxxxx", "xxxxx","xxxxx");
$sql = "SELECT * FROM solstice";
$result = mysqli_query($connect, $sql);
$json_array = array();
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$json_array[] = $row;
}
/*echo '<pre>';
print_r('records:');
echo '</pre>';*/
echo json_encode($json_array);
?>

 

Sorry, I don't know if i explained it right. But I would like to add calculation of time to that PHP code that I have.

I think I'm doing the calculation correct already, but I'm stuck as how to have it show up along with my other json result from PHP.

$Date1_ts = strtotime($row['Date1']); //Timestamp
$Date1_str = date("M-d-Y", $Date1_ts); //String in format MMM-DD-YYYY
$TotalTime = floor((time() - $Date1_ts)/(60*60*24)) . ' days';//Total in days
$start_ts = strtotime($row['Date1']);
$end_ts = strtotime($row['Date2']);
$date_diff = ($end_ts - $start_ts);
$Date3= ($date_diff>0) ? floor($date_diff/ (60*60*24)) : ''; // days difference from start to finish

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