ok i have a date
date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
how can we make it like 0 seconds ago or x year x month x day x minutes x seconds ago ? but without useing the str_time ( php 5.3.3 )
edit*
i mean is some.date - time.now = someyear some month someday someminutes someseconds ago.
like facebook or stackoverflow ( updated. i mean like that. – Adam Ramadhan 2 mins ago edit )
edit* some say to use sktime ?
the 2 mins ago.
Thanks
Adam Ramadhan
You should try out this (looks exactly like the krike answer but this one is fixed!)
<?php
function ago($timestamp){
$difference = time() - $timestamp;
$periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "years", "decade");
$lengths = array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","10");
for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j]; $j++)
$difference /= $lengths[$j];
$difference = round($difference);
if($difference != 1) $periods[$j].= "s";
$text = "$difference $periods[$j] ago";
return $text;
}
?>
Just do this---
echo ago($timeofthethingyouwant);
And remember this works with this type of format of time----
time(); //Or it looks like this 1299951275!
This works for sure and it is great and light weight script! For more head to this link--
Hope it works!
Why not just subtract 30 from the output of time() ?
date('Y-m-d H:i:s',time()-30);
time() returns the current time measured in terms of number of seconds since epoch, so subtracting 30 from it gives the timestamp of the time 30 sec ago
function nicetime($fromDate, $toDate = NULL, $precision = -1, $separator = ', ', $divisors = NULL) {
if ( is_null( $toDate ) ) {
$toDate = $this->date_get('Asia/Jakarta');
}
// Determine the difference between the largest and smallest date
$dates = array(strtotime($fromDate), strtotime($toDate));
$difference = max($dates) - min($dates);
// Return the formatted interval
return $this->format_interval($difference, $precision, $separator, $divisors);
}
/**
* Formats any number of seconds into a readable string
*
* @param int Seconds to format
* @param string Seperator to use between divisors
* @param int Number of divisors to return, ie (3) gives '1 Year, 3 Days, 9 Hours' whereas (2) gives '1 Year, 3 Days'
* @param array Set of Name => Seconds pairs to use as divisors, ie array('Year' => 31536000)
* @return string Formatted interval
*/
function format_interval($seconds, $precision = -1, $separator = ', ', $divisors = NULL)
{
// Default set of divisors to use
if(!isset($divisors)) {
$divisors = Array(
'Year' => 31536000,
'Month' => 2628000,
'Day' => 86400,
'Hour' => 3600,
'Minute' => 60,
'Second' => 1);
}
arsort($divisors);
// Iterate over each divisor
foreach($divisors as $name => $divisor)
{
// If there is at least 1 of thie divisor's time period
if($value = floor($seconds / $divisor)) {
// Add the formatted value - divisor pair to the output array.
// Omits the plural for a singular value.
if($value == 1)
$out[] = "$value $name";
else
$out[] = "$value {$name}s";
// Stop looping if we've hit the precision limit
if(--$precision == 0)
break;
}
// Strip this divisor from the total seconds
$seconds %= $divisor;
}
// FIX
if (!isset($out)) {
$out[] = "0" . $name;
}
var_dump($out);
// Join the value - divisor pairs with $separator between each element
return implode($separator, $out);
}
I found the following function when searching on google, i tested the code out and it seems to work perfectly.
function ago($timestamp){
$difference = time() - $timestamp;
$periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "years", "decade");
$lengths = array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","10");
for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j]; $j++)
$difference /= $lengths[$j];
$difference = round($difference);
if($difference != 1) $periods[$j].= "s";
$text = "$difference $periods[$j] ago";
return $text;
}
you would then call it as
echo ago($time);
Fairly simply - you need start and current timestamps. For instance, to see the number of minutes passed from a start date of this evening (8/22/2010 9pm PST):
$start = strtotime('8/22/2010 9pm');
printf('%d minutes ago', (time() - $start) / 60);
// My Output: 36 minutes ago. Will vary, depending on the current time/zone.
The 60 divisor is to get minutes. For seconds there'd be no division. For hours, days, years, etc. use different divisors. The following solution has a sample function for formatting timestamps:
