Change time to timestamp?

Question

i'm looking for a PHP code to change time like this: Fri Jul 16 16:58:46 +0000 2010 to a timestamp like this: 20 secs ago

Any help will be appreciated

also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1416697/converting-timestamp-to-time-ago-in-php-e-g-1-day-ago-2-days-ago?rq=1 — Gordon, May 25 '13 at 07:20

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 25 '13 at 06:37

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Use the strtotime() function and then compare it to the current time:

$timestamp = strtotime( 'Fri Jul 16 16:58:46 +0000 2010' );

$diff = time() - $timestamp;

This gives you the difference to the current time and you can output it in the way you need.

answered May 25 '13 at 06:37

Sirko

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only after a while, you might see `2817646532 seconds ago`. a more robust library is needed I believe. – Sagish May 25 '13 at 06:40
@SagiIsha I left out the output part on purpose :-) But you're right, one has to put some thought to that as well. – Sirko May 25 '13 at 06:41

GautamD31 · Answer 2 · 2013-05-25T06:45:33.240

Try with strtotime like

$my_time = strtotime('Fri Jul 16 16:58:46 +0000 2010');
$diff = time() - $my_time;
echo $diff." Seconds ago..";

you can get the minutes and hours as well like

echo $diff/60."Minutes Ago";
echo $diff/(60*60)."Hours Ago";

Totally you can use

$a = array( 12 * 30 * 24 * 60 * 60  =>  'year',
            30 * 24 * 60 * 60       =>  'month',
            24 * 60 * 60            =>  'day',
            60 * 60                 =>  'hour',
            60                      =>  'minute',
            1                       =>  'second'
            );

foreach ($a as $secs => $str) {
    $d = $diff / $secs;
    if ($d >= 1) {
        $r = round($d);
        echo $r . ' ' . $str . ($r > 1 ? 's' : '').' ago..';
    }
}

Try my edit also...my third ans will help you more – GautamD31 May 25 '13 at 06:45 — GautamD31, May 25 '13 at 06:45

Sagish · Answer 3 · 2013-05-25T06:46:19.830

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You should use a robust library to handle this, so you can estimate not only seconds but hours, days, weeks, months etc, when the time elapses as long. See i.e http://github.com/jimmiw/php-time-ago

edited May 25 '13 at 06:46

answered May 25 '13 at 06:39

Sagish

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or you could use the built-in DateTime and DateInterval classes: http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.dateinterval.php – HorusKol May 25 '13 at 07:00

Change time to timestamp?

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