[SOLVED] Time elapsed help

[cordoprod]

Hi.

 

I have a function to show time elapsed from a timestamp out of time();

 

Here is my functions:

// function to generate time elapsed
function time_elapsed($startTime, $endTime = false) {
$startTime = ctype_digit($startTime) ? $startTime : strtotime($startTime);
$endTime = $endTime ? (ctype_digit($endTime) ? $endTime : strtotime($endTime)) : time();

if ($endTime > $startTime) {
	$diff = $endTime - $startTime;
	return array('år' => gmdate('Y', $diff) - 1970, 'måneder' => gmdate('m', $diff) - 1, 'dager' => gmdate('d', $diff) - 1, 'timer' => gmdate('H', $diff), 'minutter' => gmdate('i', $diff), 'sekunder' => gmdate('s', $diff));
} else {

}
}

// function to get it
function time_elapsed_done($timestamp) {
$time = time_elapsed($timestamp);

foreach($time as $unit => $value) {
    if($unit == 'minutter' && $value == 1) $unit = "minutt";
if($unit == 'timer' && $value == 1) $unit = "time";
if($unit == 'dager' && $value == 1) $unit = "dag";
if($unit == 'år' && $value == 1) $unit = "år";

if($value < 60 and $unit == 'sekunder') { $value = "få sekunder"; $unit = "siden"; }

if ($value == 0) continue;
if ($unit == 'sekunder') continue;
echo ltrim($value, '0'), ' ', (($value == 1) ? $unit : $unit), ' ';
} 
}

 

What i wanna do is to make it more advanced.

 

Here's some things i wanna change:

• If the unit is e.g 1 day and 6 hours, don't show minutes
  
• Add commas between units e.g 1 hour, 2 minutes
  
• If the unit is only 0 seconds, show seconds
  

 

Please help =)

[cordoprod]

Any ideas?

[thebadbad]

I see you're using some code I posted earlier here, cool

I've written some neat functions to deal with this:

 

<?php
function putTimeArray($startTime, $endTime = false) {
$startTime = ctype_digit($startTime) ? $startTime : strtotime($startTime);
$endTime = $endTime ? (ctype_digit($endTime) ? $endTime : strtotime($endTime)) : time();

if ($endTime > $startTime) {
	$diff = $endTime - $startTime;
	$y = gmdate('Y', $diff) - 1970;
	$mo = gmdate('n', $diff) - 1;
	$d = gmdate('j', $diff) - 1;
	$h = gmdate('G', $diff);
	$mi = ltrim(gmdate('i', $diff), '0');
	$s = ltrim(gmdate('s', $diff), '0');
	return
		array(
			'y' => array($y, ($y == 1) ? 'year' : 'years'),
			'mo' => array($mo, ($mo == 1) ? 'month' : 'months'),
			'd' => array($d, ($d == 1) ? 'day' : 'days'),
			'h' => array($h, ($h == 1) ? 'hour' : 'hours'),
			'mi' => array($mi, ($mi == 1) ? 'minute' : 'minutes'),
			's' => array($s, ($s == 1) ? 'second' : 'seconds')
		);
} else {
	die('Error: endTime parameter must be larger than startTime parameter in putTimeArray function (part of timeDifference class).');
}
}

function getTimeInWords ($t) {
switch (true) {
	// years and months
	case $t['y'][0] > 0 && $t['mo'][0] > 0:
		return "{$t['y'][0]} {$t['y'][1]} and {$t['mo'][0]} {$t['mo'][1]} ago";
	case $t['y'][0] > 0 && $t['mo'][0] == 0:
		return "{$t['y'][0]} {$t['y'][1]}";
	// months and days
	case $t['mo'][0] > 0 && $t['d'][0] > 0:
		return "{$t['mo'][0]} {$t['mo'][1]} and {$t['d'][0]} {$t['d'][1]} ago";
	case $t['mo'][0] > 0 && $t['d'][0] == 0:
		return "{$t['mo'][0]} {$t['mo'][1]} ago";
	// days
	case $t['d'][0] > 0:
		return "{$t['d'][0]} {$t['d'][1]} ago";
	// hours
	case $t['h'][0] > 0:
		return "{$t['h'][0]} {$t['h'][1]} ago";
	// minutes
	case $t['mi'][0] > 0:
		return "{$t['mi'][0]} {$t['mi'][1]} ago";
	// seconds
	case $t['s'][0] > 10:
		return 'A moment ago';
	default:
		return 'Just now';
}
}

// usage
$t = putTimeArray('2008-02-03 12:00:00');
echo getTimeInWords($t);
?>

 

Try them out! Change the date/time given in putTimeArray to see what it outputs, if you can't read the getTimeInWords function. Hopefully you can use it as inspiration to achieve what you want.

 

(Actually I wrote these functions as part of a PHP class, just ask if you want it).

[cordoprod]

Thanks ! 

 

But does it comes with commas? e.g 1 hour, 1 minute?

 

Besides of that really nice =)

[thebadbad]

To change how it outputs the time, alter getTimeInWords. This should give you what you want (commas instead of "and" and greater detail when dealing with days and shorter periods):

 

<?php
function getTimeInWords ($t) {
switch (true) {
	// years and months
	case $t['y'][0] > 0 && $t['mo'][0] > 0:
		return "{$t['y'][0]} {$t['y'][1]}, {$t['mo'][0]} {$t['mo'][1]} ago";
	case $t['y'][0] > 0 && $t['mo'][0] == 0:
		return "{$t['y'][0]} {$t['y'][1]}";
	// months and days
	case $t['mo'][0] > 0 && $t['d'][0] > 0:
		return "{$t['mo'][0]} {$t['mo'][1]}, {$t['d'][0]} {$t['d'][1]} ago";
	case $t['mo'][0] > 0 && $t['d'][0] == 0:
		return "{$t['mo'][0]} {$t['mo'][1]} ago";
	// days and hours
	case $t['d'][0] > 0 && $t['h'][0] > 0:
		return "{$t['d'][0]} {$t['d'][1]}, {$t['h'][0]} {$t['h'][1]} ago";
	case $t['d'][0] > 0 && $t['h'][0] == 0:
		return "{$t['d'][0]} {$t['d'][1]} ago";
	// hours and minutes
	case $t['h'][0] > 0 && $t['mi'][0] > 0:
		return "{$t['h'][0]} {$t['h'][1]}, {$t['mi'][0]} {$t['mi'][1]}  ago";
	case $t['h'][0] > 0 && $t['mi'][0] == 0:
		return "{$t['h'][0]} {$t['h'][1]} ago";
	// minutes and seconds
	case $t['mi'][0] > 0 && $t['s'][0] > 0:
		return "{$t['mi'][0]} {$t['mi'][1]}, {$t['s'][0]} {$t['s'][1]}  ago";
	case $t['mi'][0] > 0 && $t['s'][0] == 0:
		return "{$t['mi'][0]} {$t['mi'][1]} ago";
	// seconds
	case $t['s'][0] > 10:
		return 'A moment ago';
	default:
		return 'Just now';
}
}
?>