Comments for Calculating Age

Comment from notaw on 2002-07-13

2002-07-13T13:43:52Z

Nice script! You wouldn't happen to be able to point me in the right direction for slightly adjusting your script to display the time that has gone by since a post was posted.
Sort of like this:
Posted 10hrs ago.
Posted 5 mins ago etc.
Any help or pointers would be appreciated.
-N.]]>

Comment from Jason on 2002-07-14

2002-07-15T06:20:14Z

Very good idea you came up with! I have a feeling I will be using it in about three months for pretty much the same thing. Very cute daughter by the way.]]>

Comment from pat on 2002-07-17

2002-07-17T19:07:07Z

when i attempt to implement this script using the server date as a reference (i.e. not using the MTEntryDate tag), it always displays years, months, days, minutes and seconds regardless of how i attempt to format the date. i would like to make this relative to my server date, but only show years, months and days.

any ideas?

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Comment from randy on 2002-08-19

2002-08-19T21:48:23Z

PHP Newbie - Help Needed & Appreciated.

Where do I paste this code into my page? Is the first part that does the calculation actually one php function? or 2? Do I need to include the php tags?

Thanks ahead of time for your assistance.

Keep up the good work!
wishiwasgolfing]]>

Comment from Jake on 2002-09-07

2002-09-07T13:47:51Z

Do you plan to release this as a Movabletype plugin anytime soon? I noticed you mentioned that you might... but it's been a few months since then. The way I have my blog set up right now... (xml parsed into php) this won't work.]]>

Comment from amancay on 2002-09-14

2002-09-14T09:04:01Z

Is there any way to include "if" commands to handle multiple authors???]]>

Comment from mike on 2002-09-30

2002-10-01T06:11:23Z

I'm very new to PHP, and I'm trying to use this tip to get my daughter's age on her blog, but the PHP parser seems to quit at the first 'greater than sign' (line 29 or so, $s_start_date > 8) and just prints the rest of the PHP on the page. I don't have access to the PHP setup as I am using a commercial ISP. I thought the PHP parser would wait until the '?>' to end the PHP lines. any help would be greatly appreciated.

btw, my daughter was born 09/17/1999, very close to your daughter. And congrats on the baby boy.

-Mike

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Comment from mike on 2002-09-30

2002-10-01T06:31:43Z

d'oh! I solved the problem with a .htaccess directive to look for the index.php4 file first. thanks for the great tools.]]>

Comment from Andy on 2002-10-06

2002-10-06T20:08:35Z

This script doesnt seem to support dates before January 1 1970 because it implements the unix time stamp. Is this right?]]>

Comment from amancay on 2002-11-27

2002-11-27T11:27:03Z

http://amancay.com/agenda/archives/001069.php
somehow registers as 24yrs, 11mos, 30days... even though it is clearly my 25th birthday... even yesterday registered as the same age (only hours older) odd format in the calculation???

btw birthdate=197711270045

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Comment from amancay on 2003-02-19

2003-02-19T22:58:51Z

woo hoo! It works perfectly (as far as I can tell) now!
Great job on follow-up, Brad!]]>

Comment from Eric on 2003-02-23

2003-02-23T23:36:14Z

I tried to use this for my daughter's blog, but when it got to 13 days using this:

The output was this:

I'm 1 year, 12 months, 11 days old today!

Clearly a bug with crossing a month boundary .. I don't have time to track it down at the moment, but it seems related to having the month and year be

Eric

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Comment from Eric on 2003-02-23

2003-02-23T23:38:29Z

Ok, so putting in PHP code doesn't work in this form. The input was 20030119 for the start date and 20030201 for the end date. It will spit out incorrect info even if you hardcode this into a PHP page, (i.e. not just when you run it through an MT template).

Output is as described in the previous comment.

best, Eric

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Comment from Scott Genevish on 2003-05-03

2003-05-04T05:57:58Z

The second line of the calculate_age function needs to be changed to:

$b_show_time = strlen($s_start_date) > 8;

...otherwise it will always show hours, minutes and seconds, and incorrectly at that.

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Comment from Eduardo Valdes on 2003-05-05

2003-05-05T20:02:56Z

Thanks for your work.
If it's already known that this script doesn't work for dates before 1970, could you --please-- give some clue of how to solve that problem?]]>

Comment from hari on 2003-06-25

2003-06-25T11:13:37Z

Sir, i want a simple program of how to get the date of birth from the Microsoft Acess database and calculate the date of birth with the present date ....

if u can do this favour it would be great
please show an example..

Thanking you

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changing things up

2002-10-14T23:46:53Z

autumn cleaning around here (ok, so I admit I broke out an actual vacuum the other day... but this is another story!)