Time Ago PHP Function
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The following function will convert the time stamp to time ago like 1hour ago, 1day ago, 2days ago etc.
PHP Code
<?php function timeAgo($time_ago){ $cur_time = time(); $time_elapsed = $cur_time - $time_ago; $seconds = $time_elapsed ; $minutes = round($time_elapsed / 60 ); $hours = round($time_elapsed / 3600); $days = round($time_elapsed / 86400 ); $weeks = round($time_elapsed / 604800); $months = round($time_elapsed / 2600640 ); $years = round($time_elapsed / 31207680 ); // Seconds if($seconds <= 60){ echo "$seconds seconds ago"; } //Minutes else if($minutes <=60){ if($minutes==1){ echo "one minute ago"; } else{ echo "$minutes minutes ago"; } } //Hours else if($hours <=24){ if($hours==1){ echo "an hour ago"; }else{ echo "$hours hours ago"; } } //Days else if($days <= 7){ if($days==1){ echo "yesterday"; }else{ echo "$days days ago"; } } //Weeks else if($weeks <= 4.3){ if($weeks==1){ echo "a week ago"; }else{ echo "$weeks weeks ago"; } } //Months else if($months <=12){ if($months==1){ echo "a month ago"; }else{ echo "$months months ago"; } } //Years else{ if($years==1){ echo "one year ago"; }else{ echo "$years years ago"; } } } ?>
Call in action
<?php $curenttime="2013-07-10 09:09:09"; $time_ago =strtotime($curenttime); echo timeAgo($time_ago); ?>