This is my time_elapsed function to show user friendly elapsed time for things instead of ugly date.
PHP Code:
function time_elapsed($timestamp, $parse = 0) {
if($parse == 1) {
$timestamp = strtotime($timestamp);
}
$curTimestamp = time();
$difference = $curTimestamp - $timestamp;
switch($difference) {
case ($difference == 0):
return "A second ago!";
break;
case ($difference <= 600):
$minutes = round($difference / 60, -0.5);
return "$minutes minute".(($minutes > 1)?"s":"")." ago";
break;
case ($difference <= 900):
return "A quarter ago";
break;
case ($difference <= 1800):
return round($difference / 60, -0.5)." minutes ago";
break;
case ($difference <= 2700):
return "Half an hour ago";
break;
case ($difference <= 3600):
return "Three quarters ago";
break;
case ($difference <= 86400):
$minutes = floor(($difference % 3600) / 60);
$hours = floor(($difference % 86400) / 3600);
return floor($difference / 3600)." hour" . (($hours > 1)?"s":"").(($minutes > 0)?" and $minutes minute".(($minutes > 1)?"s":""):"") . " ago";
break;
case ($difference > 86400):
$hours = floor(($difference % 86400) / 3600);
$days = floor($difference / 86400);
return "$days day" . (($days > 1)?"s":"").(($hours > 0)?" and $hours hour".(($hours > 1)?"s":""):"") . " ago";
break;
default:
return date("\A\\t H:i \o\\n d-m-Y",$timestamp);
}
}
To use (example):
PHP Code:
// Date/time from SQL
print time_elapsed($sqlrow['date_posted'], 1); // This will parse the sql date/time so it works correctly with the function
print time_elapsed($time_posted, 0); // This is if its already a timestamp
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