I want to create a script which tells me when a post is posted

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I want to create a script in php, javascript or jquery which tells me when a post is posted like Facebook in facebook when we post a status it tells us posting time like 5 minute ago or so on. I have completed all other work.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1416697/converting-timestamp-to-time-ago-in-php-e-g-1-day-ago-2-days-ago — MilanG, Feb 21 '15 at 11:11
please do some research on your own before posting a question with very low quality on stackoverflow. — andyrandy, Feb 21 '15 at 12:02
luschn, may be it is low quality for you but as a beginner I need some suggestion because I always want to do quality of work. — user3432211, Feb 21 '15 at 16:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 21 '15 at 11:18

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You have to create function that will get one parameter "posted date" and it will calculate difference from today. it will generate string and return like "2 days ago/5 min ago" or date. it is depend on you.

answered Feb 21 '15 at 11:18

Vishal Patel

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '15 at 11:26

Create a coloumn to the table where you save the post details as posted_at and have DATETIME as its data type,

Use $CurrentTime = date("Y-m-d H:i:s" ); and insert while you create the post i.e., insert

So while retrieving the data just find the difference between the posted time and current time by

$PostedTime = strtotime($FetchedData->posted_at) - strtotime(date("Y-m-d H:i:s" ));

Then you shall convert the difference time as per your wish.

I want to create a script which tells me when a post is posted

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