note 71342 deleted from function.time by aidan

Note Submitter: tristan at trinicle dot net ---- Initially I was using Andrew's function to convert a timestamp into a formatted age. It has issues with times greater than a day (div by 0). I also added recursion to produce a result similar to "2 decades 6 months 3 weeks 2 days 6 hours 56 minutes 52 seconds" when input a timestamp from 1986. Hopefully someone will find this useful. <?php public static function TimeAgo($timestamp){ // Store the current time $current_time = time(); // Determine the difference, between the time now and the timestamp $difference = $current_time - $timestamp; // Set the periods of time $periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "year", "decade"); // Set the number of seconds per period $lengths = array(1, 60, 3600, 86400, 604800, 2630880, 31570560, 315705600); // Determine which period we should use, based on the number of seconds lapsed. // If the difference divided by the seconds is more than 1, we use that. Eg 1 year / 1 decade = 0.1, so we move on // Go from decades backwards to seconds for ($val = sizeof($lengths) - 1; ($val >= 0) && (($number = $difference / $lengths[$val]) <= 1); $val--); // Ensure the script has found a match if ($val < 0) $val = 0; // Determine the minor value, to recurse through $new_time = $current_time - ($difference % $lengths[$val]); // Set the current value to be floored $number = floor($number); // If required create a plural if($number != 1) $periods[$val].= "s"; // Return text $text = sprintf("%d %s ", $number, $periods[$val]); // Ensure there is still something to recurse through, and we have not found 1 minute and 0 seconds. if (($val >= 1) && (($current_time - $new_time) > 0)){ $text .= self::TimeAgo($new_time); } return $text; } ?>