Question

So, I am implementing twitter via twitter widget pro into a wordpress theme. I’m wanting to date the tweets differently from wordpress and from the widgets formats. I want to follow twitters date format of 5h, 23h, or 3 Mar. All I’ve been able to find is how to do the “created _ ago” “about _ old” etc… I just want to use the xh if within 24 hours, otherwise use the day and month abbreviation. I really don’t know php or too much js, so any help is very very much appreciated.

Answer 1

Use PHP DateTime and DateInterval classes,

$dt1 = new DateTime("2012-02-10 10:32:22");
$dt2 = new DateTime();
$diff = $dt2->diff($dt1);
echo $diff->format("%Y years, %m months, %d days, %H hours, %I minuts, %s seconds ago");
/// 00 years, 1 months, 18 days, 08 hours, 26 minuts, 51 seconds ago

If you dont want to echo 00 years, 00 months etc then check DateTime::y, DateTime::m etc properties is 0. if zero dont echo them. For example,

$format = "";
if ($diff->y > 0){
    $format.="%Y years,";
}
if ($diff->m > 0){
    $format.="%m months,";
}
...
// more conditions for hours, minutes, seconds

// echo the format
echo $diff->format($format);

Links of Interest,

1. DateTime::__construct()
2. DateTime::diff()
3. DateInterval::format()