note 90989 added to function.date

This is an easily extendable and pretty way to output human-readable date differences such as "1 day 2 hours ago", "6 months ago", "3 years 7 months 14 days 1 hour 4 minutes 16 seconds" etc etc. Change "$levels = 2;" to whatever you want. A value of 1 will limit to only one number in the result ("3 days ago"). A value of 3 would result in up to three ("3 days 1 hour 2 minutes ago") It can be used in the following ways: echo compare_dates($start_date,$end_date); echo compare_dates($end_date,$start_date); echo compare_dates($start_date); //end date will be assumed as time(); <?php function compare_dates($date1, $date2 = time()) { $blocks = array( array('name'=>'year','amount' => 60*60*24*365 ), array('name'=>'month','amount' => 60*60*24*31 ), array('name'=>'week','amount' => 60*60*24*7 ), array('name'=>'day','amount' => 60*60*24 ), array('name'=>'hour','amount' => 60*60 ), array('name'=>'minute','amount' => 60 ), array('name'=>'second','amount' => 1 ) ); $diff = abs($date1-$date2); $levels = 2; $current_level = 1; $result = array(); foreach($blocks as $block) { if ($current_level > $levels) {break;} if ($diff/$block['amount'] >= 1) { $amount = floor($diff/$block['amount']); if ($amount>1) {$plural='s';} else {$plural='';} $result[] = $amount.' '.$block['name'].$plural; $diff -= $amount*$block['amount']; } } return implode(' ',$result).' ago'; } ?> ---- Server IP: 208.69.120.35 Probable Submitter: 216.158.164.3 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/90989 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90989/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90989/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90989/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90989/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90989/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90989/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90989 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/90989 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php