note 121908 added to function.time

A better way to get a nice time-format (1 year ago, 2 months until) without all the trailing months, days, hours, minutes, seconds in the result is by using the DateTime format and using the date_diff function as they both does most of the heavy lifting for you Function below as example <?php // Get time interval function function getTimeInterval($date) { // Set date as DateTime object $date = new DateTime ($date); // Set now as DateTime object $now = date ('Y-m-d H:i:s', time()); // If you want to compare two dates you both provide just delete this line and add a $now to the function parameter (ie. function getTimeInterval($date, $now)) $now = new DateTime ($now); // Check if date is in the past or future and calculate timedifference and set tense accordingly if ($now >= $date) { $timeDifference = date_diff ($date , $now); $tense = " ago"; } else { $timeDifference = date_diff ($now, $date); $tense = " until"; } // Set posible periods (lowest first as to end result with the highest value that isn't 0) $period = array (" second", " minute", " hour", " day", " month", " year"); // Set values of the periods using the DateTime formats (matching the periods above) $periodValue= array ($timeDifference->format('%s'), $timeDifference->format('%i'), $timeDifference->format('%h'), $timeDifference->format('%d'), $timeDifference->format('%m'), $timeDifference->format('%y')); // Loop through the periods (ie. seconds to years) for ($i = 0; $i < count($periodValue); $i++) { // If current value is different from 1 add 's' to the end of current period (ie. seconds) if ($periodValue[$i] != 1) { $period[$i] .= "s"; } // If current value is larger than 0 set new interval overwriting the lower value that came before ensuring the result shows only the highest value that isn't 0 if ($periodValue[$i] > 0) { $interval = $periodValue[$i].$period[$i].$tense; // ie.: 3 months ago } } // If any values were larger than 0 (ie. timedifference is not 0 years, 0 months, 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds ago) return interval if (isset($interval)) { return $interval; // Else if no values were larger than 0 (ie. timedifference is 0 years, 0 months, 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minites, 0 seconds ago) return 0 seconds ago } else { return "0 seconds" . $tense; } } // Ex. (time now = November 23 2017) getTimeInterval("2016-05-04 12:00:00"); // Returns: 1 year ago getTimeInterval("2017-12-24 12:00:00"); // Returns: 1 month until ?> ---- Server IP: 208.43.231.9 Probable Submitter: 81.171.52.228 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.time.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/121908 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/121908/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/121908/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/121908/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/121908/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/121908/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/121908/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/121908 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/121908 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php