Yet another blog about PHP, HTML and CSS

There’s a number of functions out there for calculating the length of time in months but they only provide integer results. MySQL can do it too, for instance. But what if you need to get a precise number?

2008-11-15 minus 2008-10-01 can’t be one if you’re calculating rent. It must be 1.466…

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All right, this is really no rocket science it’s just something I needed and took me some time to figure out.

or more robust version:

If you use the so called, German date format (day of month. month. year) you may have wondered how to achieve it with Smarty - without the leading zeroes for month.
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In the course of executing a program you need to report errors / success messages to the user. But you don’t want to mix your code with HTML, right? (A quick explanation on separating presentation from business / data logic.)

So here’s what I use:
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