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Description

ExpressionEngine plugin which calculates the number of days between dates.

Installation

Copy the “days_between” folder to your /system/expressionengine/third_party folder.

Usage

{exp:days_between:today}

Calculates the number of days between a date and today.

{exp:days_between:dates}

Calculates the number of days between two dates.

Parameters

from_date=""

Unix timestamp or valid date/time format.

from_day=""

If passing day as individual argument (not used in conjunction with from_date).

from_month=""

If passing month as individual argument (not used in conjunction with from_date).

from_year=""

If passing year as individual argument (not used in conjunction with from_date).

to_date=""

Unix timestamp or valid date/time format

to_day=""

If passing day as individual argument (not used in conjunction with to_date).

to_month=""

If passing month as individual argument (not used in conjunction with to_date).

to_year=""

If passing year as individual argument (not used in conjunction with to_date).

invert="yes"

Inverts negative numbers when using future dates.

Examples

{exp:days_between:today from_date="1420088400"}

Returns the number of days between January 1, 2015 (epoch timestamp 1420088400) and today.

{exp:days_between:today from_date="January 1, 2015"}

Also returns the number of days between January 1, 2015 and today.

{exp:days_between:today from_year="2015" from_month="1" from_day="1"}

Also returns the number of days between January 1, 2015 and today.

{exp:days_between:dates from_date="January 1, 2015" to_date="1/4/2015"}

Returns 3.

{exp:days_between:dates from_date="yesterday" to_date="tomorrow"}

Returns 2.

{exp:days_between:dates from_year="2015" from_month="1" from_day="1" to_year="2015" to_month="1" to_day="2"}

Returns 1.