Question

do i need to include something to use time_since() function in php 5 or is has it been replace?

Answer 1

It doesn’t look like that function ever existed in PHP. Do you mean time() ?

However, you can get the time since an event like so…

$timeSince = time() - strtodate('last Saturday');

You can also use the object DateTime.

$now = new DateTime();

$timeSince = $now->diff(new DateTime('last Saturday'), TRUE);

Note that diff() method wasn’t introduced until PHP 5.3.