How to get the difference between two dates with php and symfony 4?

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I am developing a holiday management project. There is an entity called Conge which includes date_departure, date_retrun and period. I made a form and the view. I would like to set the difference between the date of departure and the date of return. For example, if the user chooses dates from '04-05-2019' to '04-08-2019', how can I get and display the difference in days using javascript, php, and symfony4?

Possible duplicate of [Compare two dates with JavaScript](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/492994/compare-two-dates-with-javascript) — ehymel, May 06 '19 at 15:49

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 06 '19 at 16:13

If you are always going to use the m-d-Y format for your dates you can use just PHP to give you the number of days difference.

$departure ="04-05-2019";
$arrival = "04-08-2019";
$departure = DateTime::createFromFormat('m-d-Y', $departure)->getTimestamp();
$arrival = DateTime::createFromFormat('m-d-Y', $arrival)->getTimestamp();
echo ($arrival - $departure) / (24*60*60);  // 86400 might save some math

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 06 '19 at 14:41

Use momentjs (https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/difference/)

var departureRaw = $(".departure").val();
var departureDate = moment(departureRaw);

var returnRaw = $(".return").val();
var returnDate = moment(returnRaw);

var difference = departureDate.diff(returnDate, 'days');

Thomas Coumes · Answer 3 · 2019-05-09T14:20:40.617

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for php, as mentionned here and here you can use ->diff() function. I don't think than Symfony have any function for that

edited May 09 '19 at 14:20

answered May 09 '19 at 14:15

Thomas Coumes

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How to get the difference between two dates with php and symfony 4?

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