Question

Can anyone tell me how I can display a status message like ’12 seconds ago’ or ‘5 minutes ago’ etc in a web page?

Answer 1

Here is the php code for the same:

function time_since($since) {     $chunks = array(         array(60 * 60 * 24 * 365 , 'year'),         array(60 * 60 * 24 * 30 , 'month'),         array(60 * 60 * 24 * 7, 'week'),         array(60 * 60 * 24 , 'day'),         array(60 * 60 , 'hour'),         array(60 , 'minute'),         array(1 , 'second')     );      for ($i = 0, $j = count($chunks); $i < $j; $i++) {         $seconds = $chunks[$i][0];         $name = $chunks[$i][1];         if (($count = floor($since / $seconds)) != 0) {             break;         }     }      $print = ($count == 1) ? '1 '.$name : '$count {$name}s';     return $print; } 

The function takes the number of seconds as input and outputs text such as:

• 10 seconds
• 1 minute

etc