datetime (mysql) to array (php)

What I want to do is to take a datetime format information in my database and take the datetime from now and substract the datetime in ym database to know when the data was registered in my database.

My idea is to find a way to have the year,day,hour... seperated in some variable and do a substraction.

Question 1 :
Is there a way to do it without spliting all the data in some variable ( or an array) ?

Question 2: How I do to solve my problem? I cant figure out how.

Thx

You could try something like:

Code:

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$date1 = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('2002-03-04'));
$date2 = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('2002-03-02'));

$a = strtotime($date1);
$b = strtotime($date2);

$diff = getdate(strtotime($date1) - strtotime($date2));

echo $diff['mday'];

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Look up getdate() in the manual for more info.

Thx but I cant Insert data in my database when the data is : datetime format.

mysql:
name---------type
date_items datetime


code :
$sql = 'INSERT INTO market (id_items, price_items, date_items ) VALUES('.$id_w.', '.trim($price).', '.date("d-m-Y H:i:s").' )';



error:
Something is wrong in your syntax near of ' 2560, 08-06-2003 13:39:36 )'

Do I have to create in my database a format for my date?

I use timestamp and it work thx