RESOLVED. please close commenting, thanks.

My friend wrote a counter from scratch and it works now. Thanks though!

so let me get this straight.. I made the plugin, called it travelcounter.php, uploaded and activated it in Wordpress. Then, I went to the page I wanted to display the code on and placed the code in it. Well, it's not working.. so what now??

<?php
 
    /*
Plugin Name: TravelCounter
Plugin URI: I have no idea what this is
Description: This is a way for me to display the number of days
Version: 1.0
Author: Sean Weisbrot
Author URI: I still don't know what this is
    */
	     
    function displayCounter()
    {
$start = "July 1, 2008";
$now = "March 16, 2011";

$now = strtotime ("$now");
$then = strtotime ("$start");
$difference = $now - $then ;
$num = $difference/86400;
$days = intval($num);
$num2 = ($num - $days)*24;
$hours = intval($num2);
$num3 = ($num2 - $hours)*60;
$mins = intval($num3);
$num4 = ($num3 - $mins)*60;
$secs = intval($num4);
    }
 
?>

I did everything you said, what you see above is travelcounter.php. But when I put the displaycounter function on my page, it does this;


Days I’ve lived in China: < ?=displayCounter();?>

So now what?

I'm sorry, but my PHP understanding isn't so good.. which is why I'm having issues here.. but what I don't understand is how the code worked before on my old theme, but not now.