php minus past date from current date and get result in days -

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im looking less complicated way following:

$joindate = "2014-05-26" $date = date('ymd'); //todays date $memberfor = $joindate - $date //this need total number of days 

is there function can me this?

you should using datetime object these operations

$joindate = "2014-05-26";  $joindate_obj = new datetime($joindate); $now = new datetime(); $interval = $joindate_obj->diff($now);  $diff = $interval->d ;  echo $diff; //12 

the object $interval have

dateinterval object (   [y] => 0    [m] => 11    [d] => 12    [h] => 12    [i] => 49    [s] => 4    [weekday] => 0    [weekday_behavior] => 0    [first_last_day_of] => 0    [invert] => 0    [days] => 347    [special_type] => 0    [special_amount] => 0    [have_weekday_relative] => 0 [have_special_relative] => 0  

) may use example $interval->days difference in days.