Calculate the difference between two dates in smarty 3 template prestashop

Question

I have to calculate a sale end time relative to today,

I have the sale end time variable in this format {%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S} e.g.:(31/07/2016 18:27:58).

What I'm trying to do is to show ends: 8 days 06:10:29.
I can't use php code in the template because I'm using smarty 3 and I'm not an expert in smarty.

And the returned value should be counting down. – no_dir_rahou Jul 23 '16 at 17:15 — no_dir_rahou, Jul 23 '16 at 17:15

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '17 at 16:40

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Change your date1 and date2 values

{assign var="date1" value= $smarty.now}
{assign var="date2" value= $smarty.now+20*24*60*60}

{assign var="dateDiff" value=$date2 - $date1}

{$dateDiff|date_format:'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'}

answered Jan 05 '17 at 16:40

sandip

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Logic shouldn't be in views, only loops and echoes. Otherwise it totally defeats the view templating.The real answer is to calculate the correct output in PHP first before sending that data to Smarty. – delboy1978uk Sep 14 '17 at 10:31
as per the question, it was looking for an answer for Smarty template – sandip Sep 14 '17 at 11:23
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Indeed, but we should educate people to code to best practices. – delboy1978uk Sep 14 '17 at 11:28
totally agreed. – sandip Sep 14 '17 at 11:32

Calculate the difference between two dates in smarty 3 template prestashop

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