[SOLVED] Date display using Today & Yesterday

[lxndr]

Was just wondering if there's an easy way of being able to display a unix timestamp for GMT so that if the date in question is today or yesterday the date gets displayed using those terms while all other dates get shown as actual dates.  As an example, that would mean I'd get something like:

 

      user        joined

  Person A  Today, 02:52 AM

  Person B  Yesterday, 06:59 PM

  Person C  25 Jan 2008, 04:45 PM

  Person D  24 Jan 2008, 11:02 AM

  Person E  24 Jan 2008, 09:34 AM

 

 

TIA for any help or advice.

 

[Jackanape]

How about just a simple "IF" loop to see if the timestamp is the same as today's, using the date() function?

 

Or, am I misunderstanding your need?

[lxndr]

How about just a simple "IF" loop to see if the timestamp is the same as today's, using the date() function?

 

Or, am I misunderstanding your need?

 

detecting "yesterday" isn't as simple as it appears unless I'm missing something ?

 

[Jackanape]

I'm thinking something as simple as:

if (date('m/d/y', $timestamp) = date('m/d/y', strtotime('-1 day'))
{
$listed_day = 'Yesterday'
}
else
{
$listed_day = date('m/d/y')
}

 

I used a different format, now that I look at your original post again, but the concept remains.  strtotime() should solve your problem.