Converting timestamp to a "xx hours xx minutes ago" format, my take

[sw0o0sh]

function time_ago($timestamp)
{
   //$months = array("Jan" => 31, "Feb" => 28, "Mar" => 31, "Apr" => 30, "May" => 31, "Jun" => 30, "Jul" => 31, "Aug" => 31, "Sept" => 30, "Oct" => 31, "Nov" => 30, "Dec" => 31);
   $curr_time = time();
   $time_ago = $curr_time - $timestamp;
   if($time_ago < 60) // seconds
   {
      $ext = $time_ago . " seconds ago..";
   }
   else
   {
      if($time_ago >= 60) // minutes
      {
         $time = floor($time_ago / 60);
         $seconds_remainder = $time_ago % 60;
         $ext = $time . " minutes " . $seconds_remainder . " seconds ago..";
         
         if($time >= 60) // hours
         {
            $hours = floor($time / 60);
            $minutes = $time % 60;
            $ext = $hours . " hours " . $minutes . " minutes ago..";
            if($hours >= 24) // days
            {
               $days = floor($hours / 24);
               $day_hours = $hours % 24;
               $ext = $days . " days " . $day_hours . " hours ago ..";
            }
         }
      }
   }
   return $ext;
}

 

Is there a cleaner approach to this?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Is there some reason you started a second thread for this same code instead of continuing in the same thread you started yesterday?

[Daniel0]

Is there a cleaner approach to this?

 

If you're using PHP 5.3:

 

$timestamp = new DateTime('05:00');
$diff = $timestamp->diff(new DateTime());

echo $diff->format('%h hours, %i minutes');

 

See:

http://php.net/datetime.diff

http://php.net/dateinterval.format