Topic: Time ago for blog post - snippet
It comes from: http://php.snipplicious.com/snippet/30/time-ago
Time ago
Compute how many days/weeks/years ago is given timestamp ago from current date. As you can see on facebook for example like "2 days ago"
function timeAgo($time_ago) { $cur_time = time(); $time_elapsed = $cur_time - $time_ago; $seconds = $time_elapsed ; $minutes = round($time_elapsed / 60 ); $hours = round($time_elapsed / 3600); $days = round($time_elapsed / 86400 ); $weeks = round($time_elapsed / 604800); $months = round($time_elapsed / 2600640 ); $years = round($time_elapsed / 31207680 ); // Seconds if($seconds <= 60){ return "just now"; } //Minutes else if($minutes <=60){ if($minutes==1){ return "one minute ago"; } else{ return "$minutes minutes ago"; } } //Hours else if($hours <=24){ if($hours==1){ return "an hour ago"; }else{ return "$hours hrs ago"; } } //Days else if($days <= 7){ if($days==1){ return "yesterday"; }else{ return "$days days ago"; } } //Weeks else if($weeks <= 4.3){ if($weeks==1){ return "a week ago"; }else{ return "$weeks weeks ago"; } } //Months else if($months <=12){ if($months==1){ return "a month ago"; }else{ return "$months months ago"; } } //Years else{ if($years==1){ return "one year ago"; }else{ return "$years years ago"; } } } echo "See examples for random timestamps
"; $timestamp = rand(100000000,1000000000); echo "".$timestamp.": " . timeAgo($timestamp) . "
"; $timestamp = time()-rand(1000000,10000000); echo "".$timestamp.": " . timeAgo($timestamp) . "
"; $timestamp = time()-rand(10000,1000000); echo "".$timestamp.": " . timeAgo($timestamp) . "
";