Calculate Age

mjlintz () — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:32:45 GMT

With this function you can calculate the age of a person

Example:
echo "Age is: " . birthday ("1984-07-05");

Result will be (23 Feb 2005) = "Age is: 20"





  //calculate years of age (input string: YYYY-MM-DD)

  function birthday ($birthday){

    list($year,$month,$day) = explode("-",$birthday);

    $year_diff  = date("Y") - $year;

    $month_diff = date("m") - $month;

    $day_diff   = date("d") - $day;

    if ($day_diff < 0 || $month_diff < 0)

      $year_diff--;

    return $year_diff;

  }



?>

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Calculate Age