Question

I have a MySql datetime value like “2012-04-17 20:48:29”. I want to convert this to a simple text like “10 days ago”. I want to do this in either php or javascript! I tried to create my own algorithm to do this. But is there an already available solution for doing this?

Answer 1

you could use this pattern

$date = "2012-04-17 20:48:29";

$seconds = time() - strtotime($date);
$days = floor($seconds / 86400);
$seconds -= $days * 86400;
$hours = floor($seconds / 3600);
$seconds -= $hours * 3600;
$minutes = floor($seconds / 60);
$seconds -= $minutes * 60;

echo "$days days, $hours hours, $minutes minutes, $seconds seconds ago";

you should of course add some conditions before echoing the result. to only show 1 minute ago, or 3 hours ago, or 10 days ago…