你可以试试下面的代码:

$dt1 = strtotime("2019-12-12"); //Enter your first date
$dt2 = strtotime("12-12-2020"); //Enter your second date
echo abs(($dt1 - $dt2) / (60 * 60 * 24));

这段代码为我工作，并用PHP 8版本测试:

function numberOfDays($startDate, $endDate) 
{
    //1) converting dates to timestamps
     $startSeconds = strtotime($startDate);
     $endSeconds = strtotime($endDate);
   
    //2) Calculating the difference in timestamps
    $diffSeconds = $startSeconds  - $endSeconds;
     
    
    //3) converting timestamps to days
    $days=round($diffSeconds / 86400);
    
      /*  note :
          1 day = 24 hours 
          24 * 60 * 60 = 86400 seconds
      */
   
    //4) printing the number of days
    printf("Difference between two dates: ". abs($days) . " Days ");
    
    return abs($days);
}

如果你正在使用MySql

function daysSince($date, $date2){
$q = "SELECT DATEDIFF('$date','$date2') AS days;";
$result = execQ($q);
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_BOTH);
return ($row[0]);

}

function execQ($q){
$result = mysql_query( $q);
if(!$result){echo ('Database error execQ' . mysql_error());echo $q;}    
return $result;

}

function howManyDays($startDate,$endDate) {

    $date1  = strtotime($startDate." 0:00:00");
    $date2  = strtotime($endDate." 23:59:59");
    $res    =  (int)(($date2-$date1)/86400);        

return $res;
} 

PHP中两个日期之间的天数

      function dateDiff($date1, $date2)  //days find function
        { 
            $diff = strtotime($date2) - strtotime($date1); 
            return abs(round($diff / 86400)); 
        } 
       //start day
       $date1 = "11-10-2018";        
       // end day
       $date2 = "31-10-2018";    
       // call the days find fun store to variable 
       $dateDiff = dateDiff($date1, $date2); 

       echo "Difference between two dates: ". $dateDiff . " Days "; 

易于使用date_diff

$from=date_create(date('Y-m-d'));
$to=date_create("2013-03-15");
$diff=date_diff($to,$from);
print_r($diff);
echo $diff->format('%R%a days');

详见:https://blog.devgenius.io/how-to-find-the-number-of-days-between-two-dates-in-php-1404748b1e84