PHP Countdown to Date

Question

How could set a date and get a countdown in PHP? For example if I set the date as 3 December 2PM it would tell me how many days and hours are remaining.

No need for user inputs for the date as it will be hard coded.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use the strtotime function to get the time of the date specified, then use time to get the difference.

$date = strtotime("December 3, 2009 2:00 PM");
$remaining = $date - time();

$remaining will be the number of seconds remaining. Then you can divide that number to get the number of days, hours, minutes, etc.

$days_remaining = floor($remaining / 86400);
$hours_remaining = floor(($remaining % 86400) / 3600);
echo "There are $days_remaining days and $hours_remaining hours left";