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Get Relative Time in PHP (e.g. '1 hour ago', 'yesterday', 'tomorrow', 'in 2 weeks')
<?php
function time2str($ts) {
if(!ctype_digit($ts)) {
$ts = strtotime($ts);
}
$diff = time() - $ts;
if($diff == 0) {
return 'now';
} elseif($diff > 0) {
$day_diff = floor($diff / 86400);
if($day_diff == 0) {
if($diff < 60) return 'just now';
if($diff < 120) return '1 minute ago';
if($diff < 3600) return floor($diff / 60) . ' minutes ago';
if($diff < 7200) return '1 hour ago';
if($diff < 86400) return floor($diff / 3600) . ' hours ago';
}
if($day_diff == 1) { return 'Yesterday'; }
if($day_diff < 7) { return $day_diff . ' days ago'; }
if($day_diff < 31) { return ceil($day_diff / 7) . ' weeks ago'; }
if($day_diff < 60) { return 'last month'; }
return date('F Y', $ts);
} else {
$diff = abs($diff);
$day_diff = floor($diff / 86400);
if($day_diff == 0) {
if($diff < 120) { return 'in a minute'; }
if($diff < 3600) { return 'in ' . floor($diff / 60) . ' minutes'; }
if($diff < 7200) { return 'in an hour'; }
if($diff < 86400) { return 'in ' . floor($diff / 3600) . ' hours'; }
}
if($day_diff == 1) { return 'Tomorrow'; }
if($day_diff < 4) { return date('l', $ts); }
if($day_diff < 7 + (7 - date('w'))) { return 'next week'; }
if(ceil($day_diff / 7) < 4) { return 'in ' . ceil($day_diff / 7) . ' weeks'; }
if(date('n', $ts) == date('n') + 1) { return 'next month'; }
return date('F Y', $ts);
}
}
?>
@ali-master
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it is very good.thank you for writing and sharing that code, very thanks

@spacecdr
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There is an error... i don't know why but today, if i put 1510963200, it say "Next Month" instead of "November 2017"...

@spacecdr
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And the same for any year in front... (example: november the first 2030! 😄 )

@psmever
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psmever commented Apr 19, 2019

thank you ^^

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