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Calculate Site Uptime Using PHP

Supplying additional information to your website can be a nice statistics display. One of them is to make use of PHP to display the site uptime up to date.

It is quite easy to do so if you know a little bit about programming or (PHP programming).

(learn to use PHP to calculates site uptime...)

First of all, you need to have a PHP-enabled site in order to do this. You can use this in WordPress as well, but a runPHP plugin (for WordPress is required.

Source Code
<?php
  $createDate = "14-Feb-2008"; /* your start date here */
  $days = floor((time() - strtotime($createDate))/86400)+1;
  echo ("Website Creation Date: <b>$createDate</b><br />Website Uptime: <b>$days</b> days");
?>

The result from this code is shown below:

Website Creation Date: 14-Feb-2008
Website Uptime: 1555 days

A few lines of code can simply illustrate a much more informative and statistical display on your website. So, why not try it?

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