Displaying Date In A User Formated Style...

[thara]

Herewith I have attached an image for your better understanding... there, you can view clearly what are the values that im getting as output..

[Psycho]

Scratch that

[thara]

I clear what you are saying.. but not idea what to do. can you tell me what I need to do to display seconds or minutes?

 

Im sorry...

[Psycho]

There is a fundamental misunderstanding in this thread. Some believe that what is wanted is a concatenated output of multiple units (e.g. "1 year, 5 months, 3 days ago). However, that is not what I understand what the OP wants. I believe the OP just wants the LARGEST until measurement. So, if the time since is ~15 days then the output should be "2 weeks ago".

 

I believe the problem the OP is having with the code is that he is testing with a FUTURE date/time which results in a negative value - which fouls up the entire logic. I have no idea what timezone the OP is in - so I can't be sure, but the test value used in his code

$date = '2012-09-26 17:25:02';

has not passed yet for the US/Canada timezones

 

I have rewritten the code in what I felt was a more logical format.

function time_since ($startTimeStr, $endTimeStr=false)
{
//Set start and end times in seconds
$endTimeInt = (!$endTimeStr) ? time() : strtotime($endTimeStr);
$startTimeInt = strtotime($startTimeStr);
//Calculate the difference
$timeDiff = $endTimeInt - $startTimeInt; //Get the difference in seconds
$tokens = array (
 'year' => 31536000,
 'month' => 2592000,
 'week' => 604800,
 'day' => 86400,
 'hour' => 3600,
 'minute' => 60,
 'second' => 1
);

foreach ($tokens as $label => $measurement)
{
 if ($timeDiff >= $measurement)
 {
	 $units = floor($timeDiff/$measurement);
	 $plural = ($units>1) ? 's' : '';
	 return $units . ' ' . $label . $plural;
 }
}
return false;
}

$postedDateTime = '2012-09-26 12:25:02';
echo 'Mr. Tharanga added his tutor profile ' . time_since($postedDateTime) . ' ago';

[thara]

thanks Psycho.. your explanation was very straightforward for me.. Not I got the idea clearly...

 

thanks again..

[Psycho]

OK, I decided to extend the function a bit (I'm sure there is probably already pre-written ones to do this, but I had a few minutes to kill). The function takes three parameters.

1) $startTimeStr: The start time (as a string) for the period to be measured

2) $allUnits [Optional]: Determines if only the largest measurement is returned or the largest and all others with a non-zer0 value

3) $endTimeStr [Optional]: The end time of the period to be measured. If not passed (or false) will default to current timestamp.

 

 

//Function to determine a textual representation of the time between two events
function time_since ($startTimeStr, $allUnits=false, $endTimeStr=false)
{
   //Set start and end times in seconds
   $endTimeInt = (!$endTimeStr) ? time() : strtotime($endTimeStr);
   $startTimeInt = strtotime($startTimeStr);

   if($endTimeInt===false || $startTimeInt===false) { return false; }
   //Calculate the difference
   $timeDiff = $endTimeInt - $startTimeInt; //Get the difference in seconds
   $measurements = array (
    'year'   => 31536000,
    'month'  => 2592000,
    'week'   => 604800,
    'day'    => 86400,
    'hour'   => 3600,
    'minute' => 60,
    'second' => 1
   );

   $returnValues;
   foreach ($measurements as $label => $measurement)
   {
    if ($timeDiff >= $measurement)
    {
	    $units = floor($timeDiff/$measurement);
	    $plural = ($units>1) ? 's' : '';
	    $returnString = $units . ' ' . $label . $plural;
	    if(!$allUnits) { return $returnString; }
	    $timeDiff -= $units * $measurement;
	    $returnValues[] = $returnString;
    }
   }
   if(!count($returnValues)) { return false; }
   return implode(', ', $returnValues);
}

## USAGE
$postedDateTime = '2012-09-24 13:14:02';

echo 'This post was updated ' . time_since($postedDateTime) . ' ago';
// This post was updated 2 days ago

echo 'This post was updated ' . time_since($postedDateTime, true) . ' ago';
// This post was updated 2 days, 19 minutes, 33 seconds ago

[thara]

Psycho Thank you very much for your help.. and I welcomed all other answers too and thanks for those. My problem is now solved.