note 75743 deleted from function.time by danbrown

Note Submitter: rspenc29 at gmail dot com ---- To further expand on shdowhawk's timeDiff function I added a small but important feature function timeDiff($timestamp,$detailed=false,$n = 0){ $now = time(); #If the difference is positive "ago" - negative "away" ($timestamp >= $now) ? $action = 'away' : $action = 'ago'; $diff = ($action == 'away' ? $timestamp - $now : $now - $timestamp); # Set the periods of time $periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "year", "decade"); $lengths = array(1, 60, 3600, 86400, 604800, 2630880, 31570560, 315705600); # Go from decades backwards to seconds $i = sizeof($lengths) - 1; # Size of the lengths / periods in case you change them $time = ""; # The string we will hold our times in while($i >= $n) { if($diff > $lengths[$i-1]) { # if the difference is greater than the length we are checking... continue $val = floor($diff / $lengths[$i-1]); # 65 / 60 = 1. That means one minute. 130 / 60 = 2. Two minutes.. etc $time .= $val ." ". $periods[$i-1].($val > 1 ? 's ' : ' '); # The value, then the name associated, then add 's' if plural $diff -= ($val * $lengths[$i-1]); # subtract the values we just used from the overall diff so we can find the rest of the information if(!$detailed) { $i = 0; } # if detailed is turn off (default) only show the first set found, else show all information } $i--; } # Basic error checking. if($time == "") { return "Error-- Unable to calculate time."; } else { return $time.$action; } } Now you can specify where you want to stop. Example timeDiff($yourtimestamp,1,4); //Stops after days (no hours, minutes, seconds) timeDiff($yourtimestamp,1,5); //Stops after hours