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Get Relative Time in PHP (e.g. '1 hour ago', 'yesterday', 'tomorrow', 'in 2 weeks'). With the argument $max_diff you can specify the number of days from when the actual date should be returned.
<?php
/**
* Get Relative Time in PHP (e.g. '1 hour ago', 'yesterday', 'tomorrow', 'in 2 weeks').
* With the argument `$max_diff` you can specify the number of days from when the
* actual date should be returned witht the format of `$date_format`.
*
* Gist: https://gist.github.com/wottpal/61bc13425a8cedcd88666040d1449bfd
* Fork of: https://gist.github.com/mattytemple/3804571
*/
function relative_time($ts, $max_diff = false, $date_format = 'd/m/Y') {
$max_is_set = $max_diff !== false;
if(!ctype_digit($ts)) {
$ts = strtotime($ts);
}
$diff = time() - $ts;
if($diff == 0) {
return 'now';
} elseif($diff > 0) {
$day_diff = floor($diff / 86400);
if ($max_is_set && $day_diff > $max_diff) return date($date_format, $ts);
if ($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 ($max_is_set && $day_diff > $max_diff) return date($date_format, $ts);
if ($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);
}
}
?>
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