calculating age

[anatak]

I want to calculate the age of some one.
so I want to substract 2 dates and then keep the year.
at this point I get the years of today's date and substract the year of the birthday date of the person.
but that means that every body's age changes at new year.

$now = date("Y-m-d");
$bday = $Row["UserBirthday"];
$age = $now-$bday;

is how I calculate the age of someone

I guess there is a way to substract two dates and round down to the year.

so does anybody kno how I can get the right number of years difference ?

anatak

[ober]

My suggestion would be to use strtotime() to reduce the 2 dates to the unix timestamp and do your calculations based off of that.

[kenrbnsn]

Your code may not return anything meaningful:
[code]<?php
$now = date("Y-m-d");
$bday = $Row["UserBirthday"];
$age = $now-$bday;
?>[/code]
The value of "$now" is a string, the subtraction might work because PHP will automatically turn a string like "2006-03-23" into 2006.

What you should do is something like:
[code]<?php
$hour = 3600; // number of seconds in an hour
$day = hour * 24; //number of seconds in a day (86400)
$yr = $day * 365.25; // number of seconds in a year, approximately
$now = strtotime('today'); // the number of seconds since 1-1-1970
$bday = strtotime($Row['UserBirthday']);  // I'm assuming that the format of $Row['UserBirthday'] is yyyy-mm-dd
$age = floor($now - $bday)/$yr;
echo $age;
?>[/code]

This algorithm will work all the time if the birthday is on or after 1-1-1970. On some systems it might work for earlier dates.

Ken

[anatak]

here is my solution.
because of the problem wiht the range of dates I wrote the following function

here is the code that calls the function age()

[code]
If (substr($Row["UserBirthday"], 0, 4)=="0000"){
    $date=display_date_format($Row['UserBirthday']);
    $bday=substr($date, 0,strlen($date)-4).'secret';
    $age='secret';
}
else{
    
    $today = date("Y-m-d");
    $bday = $Row["UserBirthday"];
    $age= age($today, $bday);
    echo "function age: ".$age;
//    $age = $today-$bday;
    $bday = display_date_format($Row["UserBirthday"]);
}
[/code]

and here is the function age()
[code]
function age($arg01, $arg02)
{
    $today=$arg01;
    $bday=$arg02;
    echo $today ." today<br>";
    echo $bday . " birthday<br>";
    $todayyear=substr($today, 0, 4);
    $todaymonth=substr($today, 5, 2);
    $todayday=substr($today, 8, 2);

    $bdayyear=substr($bday, 0, 4);
    $bdaymonth=substr($bday, 5, 2);
    $bdayday=substr($bday, 8, 2);
    
    $age = $today - $bdayyear;
    if($todaymonth-$bdaymonth<=0){
        echo $age." month age -1<br>";
        $age--;
    }elseif($todayday-$bdayday<0){
        echo $age." day age -1<br>";
        $age--;
    }

    return $age;
}
[/code]
this works for me
thank you for looking into my problem
anatak