On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:37:41 +0100, Merlin <news.groups@xxxxxx> wrote: > i am somehow strugling to find out how to get the age of a person from its > birthdate. > > Has anybody an idea how to do that? function getAge( $b ) { $b = date( 'Y-m-d', strtotime( $b ) ); $a = explode( '-', $b ); $age = date( 'Y-m-d' ) - $b; return ( date( 'nd' ) < $a[ 1 ].str_pad( $a[ 2 ], 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT ) ) ? $age -= 1 : $age; } echo getAge( $birthday ); -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://gdconsultants.com/ http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php