Chris
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Jan 6, 2011, 5:02 PM
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Facebook-style relative times (e.g. "7 hours ago")
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Hi everyone,
I just wrote a bit of code that I thought someone might find useful; it turns a date into a more human-readable format such as "37 seconds ago", "about an hour ago", "Wednesday at 6:07pm", or "February 17, 2007", depending on how far in the past the date is. It doesn't handle future-dates at all.
<?php
function pretty_relative_time($time) {
if ($time !== intval($time)) { $time = strtotime($time); }
$d = time() - $time;
if ($time < strtotime(date('Y-m-d 00:00:00')) - 60*60*24*3) {
$format = 'F j';
if (date('Y') !== date('Y', $time)) {
$format .= ", Y";
}
return date($format, $time);
}
if ($d >= 60*60*24) {
$day = 'Yesterday';
if (date('l', time() - 60*60*24) !== date('l', $time)) { $day = date('l', $time); }
return $day . " at " . date('g:ia', $time);
}
if ($d >= 60*60*2) { return intval($d / (60*60)) . " hours ago"; }
if ($d >= 60*60) { return "about an hour ago"; }
if ($d >= 60*2) { return intval($d / 60) . " minutes ago"; }
if ($d >= 60) { return "about a minute ago"; }
if ($d >= 2) { return intval($d) . " seconds ago"; }
return "a few seconds ago";
}
?>
USAGE:
<?php echo pretty_relative_time($record['createdDate']); ?>
I hope this is helpful to someone! :D
Chris
(This post was edited by Damon on Feb 7, 2011, 10:56 AM)
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Thanks for the added info. Very helpful indeed. Gonna look forward for another tips. 