$yourdate="2012-10-20";
$yourdate_unix=strtotime($yourdate);
echo (date("Y")-date("Y",$yourdate_unix))*12+(date("n")-date("n",$yourdate_unix));
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$yourdate="2012-10-20";
$yourdate_unix=strtotime($yourdate);
echo (date("Y")-date("Y",$yourdate_unix))*12+(date("n")-date("n",$yourdate_unix));