// Change this to the day in the future
$day = 15;

// Change this to the month in the future
$month = 11;

// Change this to the year in the future
$year = 2012;

// $days is the number of days between now and the date in the future
$days = (int)((mktime (0,0,0,$month,$day,$year) - time(void))/86400);

echo "There are $days days until $day/$month/$year";

从PHP 5.3及以上版本开始，添加了新的日期/时间函数来获得不同:

$datetime1 = new DateTime("2010-06-20");

$datetime2 = new DateTime("2011-06-22");

$difference = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);

echo 'Difference: '.$difference->y.' years, ' 
                   .$difference->m.' months, ' 
                   .$difference->d.' days';

print_r($difference);

结果如下:

Difference: 1 years, 0 months, 2 days

DateInterval Object
(
    [y] => 1
    [m] => 0
    [d] => 2
    [h] => 0
    [i] => 0
    [s] => 0
    [invert] => 0
    [days] => 367
)

希望能有所帮助!

如果你有以秒为单位的时间(即unix时间戳)，那么你可以简单地减去时间并除以86400(秒/天)

使用这个简单的函数。声明函数

<?php
function dateDiff($firstDate,$secondDate){
    $firstDate = strtotime($firstDate);
    $secondDate = strtotime($secondDate);

    $datediff = $firstDate - $secondDate;
    $output = round($datediff / (60 * 60 * 24));
    return $output;
}
?>

像这样调用这个函数

<?php
    echo dateDiff("2018-01-01","2018-12-31");    

// OR

    $firstDate = "2018-01-01";
    $secondDate = "2018-01-01";
    echo dateDiff($firstDate,$secondDate);    
?>

function howManyDays($startDate,$endDate) {

    $date1  = strtotime($startDate." 0:00:00");
    $date2  = strtotime($endDate." 23:59:59");
    $res    =  (int)(($date2-$date1)/86400);        

return $res;
} 

将日期转换为unix时间戳，然后从另一个时间戳中减去一个日期。这将得到以秒为单位的差值，然后除以86400(一天中的秒数)，得到该范围内的大约天数。

如果你的日期格式为25.1.2010,01/25/2010或2010-01-25，你可以使用strtotime函数:

$start = strtotime('2010-01-25');
$end = strtotime('2010-02-20');

$days_between = ceil(abs($end - $start) / 86400);

使用ceil将天数四舍五入到下一个全天。如果您希望获得这两个日期之间的完整天数，则使用floor。

如果日期已经是unix时间戳格式，则可以跳过转换，只执行$days_between部分。对于更奇特的日期格式，您可能必须进行一些自定义解析以使其正确。