Perfect age calculator

[Marcel]

Hello all,

I am looking for a perfect PHP age calculator which takes someones date of
birth as an argument and returns the person's age.

I went over several tutorials, help and newsgroups an found lots of
calculators, tried many times to make the perfect script but did not
find/make the perfect one.

Simple test:

if my birthdate is 07-07-2004 (dd-mm-yyyy) and today is 07-07-2005 then i
should be 1 year old

if my birthdate is 07-07-2004 (dd-mm-yyyy) and today is 06-07-2005 then i
should be 0 years old

Lots of scripts i've found did not pass this test succesfull, so if someone
can point me to the 'golden' script then i would be very thankfull!

Regards,

Marcel

[Markus L.]

Am Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:59:56 +0200 schrieb Marcel:

Hello all,

I am looking for a perfect PHP age calculator which takes someones date of
birth as an argument and returns the person's age.

I went over several tutorials, help and newsgroups an found lots of
calculators, tried many times to make the perfect script but did not
find/make the perfect one.

Simple test:

if my birthdate is 07-07-2004 (dd-mm-yyyy) and today is 07-07-2005 then i
should be 1 year old

if my birthdate is 07-07-2004 (dd-mm-yyyy) and today is 06-07-2005 then i
should be 0 years old

Lots of scripts i've found did not pass this test succesfull, so if someone
can point me to the 'golden' script then i would be very thankfull!

Regards,

Marcel

The script is written in 2 minutes:
<?php
$birthday = '07-07-2004';
$today = date('d-m-Y');

$a_birthday = explode('-', $birthday);
$a_today = explode('-', $today);

$day_birthday = $a_birthday[0];
$month_birthday = $a_birthday[1];
$year_birthday = $a_birthday[2];
$day_today = $a_today[0];
$month_today = $a_today[1];
$year_today = $a_today[2];

$age = $year_today - $year_birthday;

if (($month_today < $month_birthday) || ($month_today == $month_birthday && $day_today < $day_birthday))
{
$age--;
}
?>

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[Mladen Gogala]

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:59:56 +0200, Marcel wrote:

Hello all,

I am looking for a perfect PHP age calculator which takes someones date of
birth as an argument and returns the person's age.

<?php
print "You're too old!\n";
?>
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[Marcel]

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Am Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:59:56 +0200 schrieb Marcel:

Hello all,

I am looking for a perfect PHP age calculator which takes someones date
of
birth as an argument and returns the person's age.

I went over several tutorials, help and newsgroups an found lots of
calculators, tried many times to make the perfect script but did not
find/make the perfect one.

Simple test:

if my birthdate is 07-07-2004 (dd-mm-yyyy) and today is 07-07-2005 then i
should be 1 year old

if my birthdate is 07-07-2004 (dd-mm-yyyy) and today is 06-07-2005 then i
should be 0 years old

Lots of scripts i've found did not pass this test succesfull, so if
someone
can point me to the 'golden' script then i would be very thankfull!

Regards,

Marcel

The script is written in 2 minutes:
<?php
$birthday = '07-07-2004';
$today = date('d-m-Y');

$a_birthday = explode('-', $birthday);
$a_today = explode('-', $today);

$day_birthday = $a_birthday[0];
$month_birthday = $a_birthday[1];
$year_birthday = $a_birthday[2];
$day_today = $a_today[0];
$month_today = $a_today[1];
$year_today = $a_today[2];

$age = $year_today - $year_birthday;

if (($month_today < $month_birthday) || ($month_today == $month_birthday
&& $day_today < $day_birthday))
{
$age--;
}
?>

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Thank you!!!

[imaekphp]

A much more efficient method would just use unix time; the drawback,
however, is that it only goes up to 1970.
An example
<?
getAge($year,$month,$day) {
$then = mktime(1,1,1,$year,$month,$day);
return(floor((time()-$then)/31556926));
}
?>

This should return a round number (e.g. 15, 20, 25) but if you want it
to return the decimal form of the year that has been completed, remove
the floor() function, which, if the user was exactly 20 and 1/2, would
return 20.5, but most likely would return their age and a long string
of decimals (20.324325443545634643545...)

Not that that really answeres your question at all, but I had just been
thinking about this for a while this afternoon, and when I saw this
topic (an excuse to type it up and fully reason it out,) I decided to
jump at it. ;-)

--imaek