PHP calculate age

Write a PHP script to calculate the current age of a person.

Sample date of birth : 11.4.1987

Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
$bday = new DateTime('11.4.1987'); // Your date of birth
$today = new Datetime(date('m.d.y'));
$diff = $today->diff($bday);
printf(' Your age : %d years, %d month, %d days', $diff->y, $diff->m, $diff->d);
printf("\n");
?>

Sample Output:

Your age : 30 years, 3 month, 0 days

Figured I'd throw this on here since this seems to be most popular form of this question.

I ran a 100 year comparison on 3 of the most popular types of age funcs i could find for PHP and posted my results (as well as the functions) to my blog.

As you can see there, all 3 funcs preform well with just a slight difference on the 2nd function. My suggestion based on my results is to use the 3rd function unless you want to do something specific on a person's birthday, in which case the 1st function provides a simple way to do exactly that.

_{Found small issue with test, and another issue with 2nd method! Update coming to blog soon! For now, I'd take note, 2nd method is still most popular one I find online, and yet still the one I'm finding the most inaccuracies with!}

My suggestions after my 100 year review:

If you want something more elongated so that you can include occasions like birthdays and such:

function getAge($date) { // Y-m-d format
    $now = explode("-", date('Y-m-d'));
    $dob = explode("-", $date);
    $dif = $now[0] - $dob[0];
    if ($dob[1] > $now[1]) { // birthday month has not hit this year
        $dif -= 1;
    }
    elseif ($dob[1] == $now[1]) { // birthday month is this month, check day
        if ($dob[2] > $now[2]) {
            $dif -= 1;
        }
        elseif ($dob[2] == $now[2]) { // Happy Birthday!
            $dif = $dif." Happy Birthday!";
        };
    };
    return $dif;
}

getAge('1980-02-29');

But if you just simply want to know the age and nothing more, then:

function getAge($date) { // Y-m-d format
    return intval(substr(date('Ymd') - date('Ymd', strtotime($date)), 0, -4));
}

getAge('1980-02-29');

See BLOG

A key note about the strtotime method:

Note:

Dates in the m/d/y or d-m-y formats are disambiguated by looking at the 
separator between the various components: if the separator is a slash (/), 
then the American m/d/y is assumed; whereas if the separator is a dash (-) 
or a dot (.), then the European d-m-y format is assumed. If, however, the 
year is given in a two digit format and the separator is a dash (-, the date 
string is parsed as y-m-d.

To avoid potential ambiguity, it's best to use ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) dates or 
DateTime::createFromFormat() when possible.

If you want to caculate the Age of using the dob, you can also use this function. It uses the DateTime object.

function calcutateAge($dob){

        $dob = date("Y-m-d",strtotime($dob));

        $dobObject = new DateTime($dob);
        $nowObject = new DateTime();

        $diff = $dobObject->diff($nowObject);

        return $diff->y;

}

Here is the process that is more simple and works both for the formats dd/mm/yyyy and dd-mm-yyyy. This is working great for me:

    <?php
        
       $birthday = '26/04/1994';
                                                            
       $dob = strtotime(str_replace("/", "-", $birthday));
       $tdate = time();
       echo date('Y', $tdate) - date('Y', $dob);

   ?>