Date, Age

WebHelper Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 71

Hey

I no nothing about server side coding and i was wondering if anybody knows of a small script that will work out somebodys age from their date of birth possibly a php script?

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Hi,

Hope this will help:

http://www.php.net/date wrote:

A little function who calculate people age with their date of birth.
The format of date used is the one used in mysql table. (For example: 2004-10-23)

Code:

<?php
function CalcAge($date_of_birth) { // YYYY-MM-DD
$cur_year=date("Y");
$cur_month=date("m");
$cur_day=date("d");

$dob_year=substr($date_of_birth, 0, 4);
$dob_month=substr($date_of_birth, 5, 2);
$dob_day=substr($date_of_birth, 8, 2);

if($cur_month>$dob_month || ($dob_month==$cur_month && $cur_day>=$dob_day) )
return $cur_year-$dob_year;
else
return $cur_year-$dob_year-1;
}
?>

WebHelper Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 71

hmm it doesn't appear to work i get a parse error for the second line of it

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 6:51 pm (19 years ago)

I just tried and also got the parse error. However there is nothing wrong with the code it was just that copying and pasting from the forum caused there to be a lot of invisible characters, basically all of the indentation.

If your text editor can display invisibles turn it on and it should show them so you can delete them. Or just delete any spaces before and after each line.

Or try this version of the code which I have cleaned up and seems to be OK:

Code:

<?php
function CalcAge($date_of_birth) { // YYYY-MM-DD
$cur_year=date("Y");
$cur_month=date("m");
$cur_day=date("d");
$dob_year=substr($date_of_birth, 0, 4);
$dob_month=substr($date_of_birth, 5, 2);
$dob_day=substr($date_of_birth, 8, 2);
if($cur_month>$dob_month || ($dob_month==$cur_month && $cur_day>=$dob_day) )
return $cur_year-$dob_year;
else
return $cur_year-$dob_year-1;
}

echo CalcAge("1999-05-05");
?>

WebHelper Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 71

thanks that worked great Smile

Junior WebHelper Joined: 25 Feb 2015 Posts: 1

ok i have figured out the problem with this and the problem was how i done the datapath.cs

instead of doing like this
Code: