erikb

Not exactly wizard code, but why not publish it anyway... I googled for an example like this myself but had trouble finding a good match. Maybe it was more a question of finding the right keywords to search for.

I use this code on the Swedish site for the World Usability Day.

function daystogo() {
  // my target date is November 14th 2006
  $then = mktime(0, 0, 0, 11, 14, 2006);
  // calculate difference between now and then
  $now = time();
  $diff = $then - $now;
  // second, minute, hour
  $days = round(0.5 + $diff / 60 / 60 / 24);
  // make sure we do not return negative zeros
  if ($days == -0) $days = 0;

  return $days;
}
  // somewhere later in the code... 
  $days = daystogo();
  // if ($days > 0) ...