[SOLVED] $date = today

[runnerjp]

currently i have

function gettheTime($dbtime,$time)  {
// Get current timestamp
$intTime = time();
// Calculate difference
$intDiff = $intTime - $dbtime;

// Check time
switch(true)
{
         case ($intDiff < 60):
                echo "<strong>Less than a minute ago</strong>";
                break;
        case ($intDiff < 3600):
                echo "<strong>Less than an hour ago</strong>";
                break;
        case ($intDiff < 7200):
                echo "<strong>One hour ago</strong>";
                                break;
        case ($intDiff < 10800):
                echo "<strong>Two hours ago</strong>";
                                break;
                case ($intDiff < 86400):
                echo "<strong>Today</strong>";
                                break;
                case ($intDiff < 172800):
                echo "<strong>Yesterday</strong>";
                break;
        default:
               echo $time;
}}

 

but there is a error in my ways...

      case ($intDiff < 86400):

                echo "<strong>Today</strong>";

                                break;

                case ($intDiff < 172800):

                echo "<strong>Yesterday</strong>";

 

will only get hours passed... if i posted my post last night at 10 oclock it will still say today as 86400 has not passed...

 

how can i fix it so today and yesterday is echoed if 10800 have passed and it is actually today or yesterday

[bobbinsbro]

perhaps you could get the timestamp of the most recent midnight (00:00), and then to check if the post was today, the condition would be:

case ($dbtime > $midnight):

and the condition for yesterday would be:

case ($dbtime > ($midnight - 86400):

[runnerjp]

how would i get timestamp of most recent midnight??

 

also with my swtich i take it that if 1 does not work it moves to other

 

e.g

 

case ($intDiff < 7200): -- not this one so move onto next case

                echo "<strong>One hour ago</strong>";

                                break;

        case ($intDiff < 10800):

                echo "<strong>Two hours ago</strong>";

                                break;

[runnerjp]

could i do something like

 

$today = (date("d/m/Y")

 

case ($intDiff = $today):

[bobbinsbro]

wouldn't this give you the timestamp of the most recent midnight?

$midnight = strtotime(date("d F Y")." 00:00");

 

why should this interfere with the flow of your switch?  ???

[runnerjp]

yes but the thing is if its 24+ midnight i want it to display yesterday.... if its 48 hours + midnight i want to just show $time

[bobbinsbro]

???

it would still work...

<?php
function gettheTime($dbtime,$time)  {
// Get current timestamp
$intTime = time();
// Calculate difference
$intDiff = $intTime - $dbtime;
$midnight = strtotime(date("d F Y")." 00:00"); //get the timestamp of last midnight

// Check time
switch(true)
{
         case ($intDiff < 60):
                echo "<strong>Less than a minute ago</strong>";
                break;
        case ($intDiff < 3600):
                echo "<strong>Less than an hour ago</strong>";
                break;
        case ($intDiff < 7200):
                echo "<strong>One hour ago</strong>";
                                break;
        case ($intDiff < 10800):
                echo "<strong>Two hours ago</strong>";
                                break;
        case ($dbtime > $midnight): //if the dbtime is later than the last midnight, dbtime = today
                echo "<strong>Today</strong>";
                                break;
         case ($dbtime > ($midnight - 86400)): //if dbtime is later than midnight yesterday, dbtime = yesterday
                echo "<strong>Yesterday</strong>";
                break;
        default: //else echo $time.
               echo $time;
}}
?>

 

i changed your code and added comments. if this doesn't work, i must not be understanding what you want to do... :-\