Year counter

[vchris]

I have something like this in my text: "It's been 8 years...". In a year it won't be 8 years it'll be 9 years. So I'd like to create a counter that will increase the years every year and I'm not sure how to do this in php.

[PrateekSaxena]

<?php$year =  date("Y");echo $year-1999;

Will this work?

[smiles]

<?php$my_t=getdate(date("U"));$countYear= $my_t[year]-1999;echo $countYear;?>

http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_getdate.asp

[PrateekSaxena]

Isn't that the same as the code that I wrote? I mean in functionality?

[iyeru42]

Isn't that the same as the code that I wrote? I mean in functionality?

Doubtful, because smiles used "U" rather than "Y."

[Mr_CHISOL]

Doubtful, because smiles used "U" rather than "Y."

With "functionallity" you, in most cases, mean how "it function": The result, not the way to get the result.And nomather which you use the result will be same (number of years between 1999 and today).