Twig date difference

Question

I've got an entity with a starting date and an ending date.

Is it possible to get the difference in time between them by using twig?

Answer 1

Since PHP 5.3 There is another option without to write an extension.

This example show how to calc the plural day/days

{# endDate and startDate are strings or DateTime objects #} {% set difference = date(endDate).diff(date(startDate)) %} {% set leftDays = difference.days %} {% if leftDays == 1 %}   1 day {% else %}   {{ leftDays }} days {% endif %} 

Explanation:

PHP 5.3 DateTime object has diff() method which return a DateInterval object with the result difference between endDate and beginDate Twig

Twig date function always return a DateTime object so we can call diff method

Finally we can access to the properties of the DateInterval object or format it with the Twig date filter.

Note: There is no need of wrap endDate or startDate with the date function if the variable is already a DateTime object.

Note2: DateTime is used here as a synonym of DateTimeInterface.

Answer 2

There's no built-in function to do that, but you can easily do it yourself, extending twig is easy!

The quick'n'easy way is to do it with twig's simple function class:

$function = new Twig_SimpleFunction('date_difference', function ($start, $end) {     // ... calculate difference and return it });  // assuming $twig is an instance of Twig_Environment $twig->addFunction($function); 

The reusable way is to create a twig extension (documented on the same link). That's still easy.