PhP - Time Difference

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Socoder -> Off Topic -> PhP - Time Difference
Sat, 29 Jul 2017, 11:11
GfK	gah. PHP does my fucking box in! All I want to do is get the difference (in hours) between two DateTimes. Will it do it? Will it fuck!
Sat, 29 Jul 2017, 11:11
Jayenkai	Strtotime both times to get UnixTimes for both, then subtract and divide by ...um.. 60x60, IIRC -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 29 Jul 2017, 11:49
GfK	Shall try in a bit. All it is... i have a thing on my site where people can contact, but it emails them for verification first. The database had over 500 unverified spam entries in (when a user verifies, their entry gets deleted), so i figured every time a new spam appears, I'd purge any of the others at the same time that are older than X days. Simple.... but apparently not!! Fair do's I haven't done any PHP in years. \|edit\| some of the spam related to very sinister shenanigans which i do not care to see, and would call the police if i thought that the sender was in any way identifiable so its important i get this self-purging thing going.
Sat, 29 Jul 2017, 13:42
GfK	OK... any clues what I'm doing wrong here? This code: $now = strtotime(date(DATE_RFC822)); While ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) { if (($now - strtotime($row[date])) / (60 * 60) >= 48); { echo "would delete record " . $row[messageid] . ", age " . ($now - strtotime($row[date])) / (60 * 60) . "</br>"; //$query = "DELETE FROM contactmail WHERE messageid = $row[messageid]"; //mysqli_query($link, $query); } } --v ...spits out the following: would delete record 617, age 0 would delete record 616, age 0.0477777777778 would delete record 615, age 0.0713888888889 Why? All three are less than 48?! \|edit\| how odd.... made a little change to only calculate the time difference once, and it works now?? $now = strtotime(date(DATE_RFC822)); While ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) { $timediff = ($now - strtotime($row[date])) / (60 * 60); if ($timediff >= 48) { echo "would delete record " . $row[messageid] . ", age " . $timediff . "</br>"; //$query = "DELETE FROM contactmail WHERE messageid = $row[messageid]"; //mysqli_query($link, $query); } else { echo "record " . $row[messageid] . " not deleted it's only " . $timediff . "</br>"; } } --v
Sat, 29 Jul 2017, 14:05
Jayenkai	In the first instance, you've put a ; at the end of the if line, thus ending the if there.. the bracketted stuff then "just happens" regardless of what the If did. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 29 Jul 2017, 14:11
GfK	Oh bollocks! Thanks for your help. Works a treat now.
Sat, 29 Jul 2017, 14:52
Jayenkai	Odd that it allowed completely superfluous brackets, though. Damn thing's always whinging about brackets to me! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 29 Jul 2017, 15:19
cyangames	An alternative way to get around it is with the mktime function, really helps with timestamps, for example, if I wanted to delete records aged 1 week ago I'd use someting like the following: <?php $removeDate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", mktime(date("H"), date("i"), date("s"), date("m"), date("d") - 7, date("Y"))); db_query("DELETE FROM tablename WHERE created_date < '".$removeDate."'"); ?> --v mktime can make light work of date based issues. \|edit\| I should probably mention that db_query isn't an actual function name, just one that I've used for ages as a wrapper. \|edit\| -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also!