note 89415 added to function.time

A time difference function that outputs the time passed in facebook's style: 1 day ago, or 4 months ago. I took andrew dot macrobert at gmail dot com function and tweaked it a bit. On a strict enviroment it was throwing errors, plus I needed it to calculate the difference in time between a past date and a future date. <?php function nicetime($date) { if(empty($date)) { return "No date provided"; } $periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "year", "decade"); $lengths = array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","10"); $now = time(); $unix_date = strtotime($date); // check validity of date if(empty($unix_date)) { return "Bad date"; } // is it future date or past date if($now > $unix_date) { $difference = $now - $unix_date; $tense = "ago"; } else { $difference = $unix_date - $now; $tense = "from now"; } for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j] && $j < count($lengths)-1; $j++) { $difference /= $lengths[$j]; } $difference = round($difference); if($difference != 1) { $periods[$j].= "s"; } return "$difference $periods[$j] {$tense}"; } $date = "2009-03-04 17:45"; $result = nicetime($date); // 2 days ago ?> ---- Server IP: 66.207.199.35 Probable Submitter: 99.255.198.227 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.time.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/89415 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89415/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89415/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89415/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89415/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89415/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89415/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89415 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/89415 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php