[SOLVED] Okay, another...

[MrXander]

..I want to show when a user was last active.

 

Again, their latest action is recorded by time();

How can I show how many seconds ago that user was last active? And if more than 60 seconds, tick over into minutes... etc

[lococobra]

<?php
$lastActive = time() - $lastTime
if($lastActive >= 60){
//More than 60 seconds ago
$lastActive = intval($lastActive/60);
$timeType = "Minutes";
} else {
$timeType = "Seconds";
}

echo 'User was active '.$lastActive.' '.$timeType.' ago.';

?>

 

That's the first thing that came to my head. Didn't check the code, but it probably works.

[Oldiesmann]

First: Subtract the last active timestamp from time().

 

Then, check it against various values:

 

Less than 60 = seconds

Less than 3600 = minutes

Less than 86400 = hours

Less than 604800 = days

Etc.

 

$active = time() - $last_active;
if($last_active < 60)
{
    $last_active_string = $last_active . ($last_active == 1) ' second' : ' seconds';
}
elseif($last_active < 3600)
{
    $last_active = (int) ($last_active / 60);
    $last_active_string = $last_active . ($last_active == 1) ' minute' : ' minutes';
}
elseif($last_active < 86400)
{
    $last_active = (int) ($last_active / 3600);
    $last_active_string = $last_active . ($last_active == 1) ' hour' : ' hours';
}
elseif($last_active < 604800)
{
    $last_active = (int) ($last_active / 86400);
    $last_active_string = $last_active . ($last_active == 1) ' day' : ' days';
}
...

 

That's pretty basic, but should give you a good idea.

[MrXander]

<?php
$lastActive = time() - $lastTime
if($lastActive >= 60){
//More than 60 seconds ago
$lastActive = intval($lastActive/60);
$timeType = "Minutes";
} else {
$timeType = "Seconds";
}

echo 'User was active '.$lastActive.' '.$timeType.' ago.';

?>

 

That's the first thing that came to my head. Didn't check the code, but it probably works.

 

That worked fantastically. How can I modify it to echo "hours" and "days", if it were to go that far?

[MrXander]

Any ideas people?

[uramagget]

Well, as for how an hour, you'd set the seconds to 3600, and for a day, it's 86400 seconds.