PHP How to find the time elapsed since a date time

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How to find the time elapsed since a date time stamp like 2010-04-28 17:25:43, final out put text should be like xx Minutes Ago/xx Days Ago

Answer 1

Want to share php function which results in grammatically correct Facebook like human readable time format.

Example:

echo get_time_ago(strtotime('now'));

Result:

less than 1 minute ago

function get_time_ago($time_stamp)
{
    $time_difference = strtotime('now') - $time_stamp;

    if ($time_difference >= 60 * 60 * 24 * 365.242199)
    {
        /*
         * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 365.242199 days/year
         * This means that the time difference is 1 year or more
         */
        return get_time_ago_string($time_stamp, 60 * 60 * 24 * 365.242199, 'year');
    }
    elseif ($time_difference >= 60 * 60 * 24 * 30.4368499)
    {
        /*
         * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 30.4368499 days/month
         * This means that the time difference is 1 month or more
         */
        return get_time_ago_string($time_stamp, 60 * 60 * 24 * 30.4368499, 'month');
    }
    elseif ($time_difference >= 60 * 60 * 24 * 7)
    {
        /*
         * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week
         * This means that the time difference is 1 week or more
         */
        return get_time_ago_string($time_stamp, 60 * 60 * 24 * 7, 'week');
    }
    elseif ($time_difference >= 60 * 60 * 24)
    {
        /*
         * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day
         * This means that the time difference is 1 day or more
         */
        return get_time_ago_string($time_stamp, 60 * 60 * 24, 'day');
    }
    elseif ($time_difference >= 60 * 60)
    {
        /*
         * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour
         * This means that the time difference is 1 hour or more
         */
        return get_time_ago_string($time_stamp, 60 * 60, 'hour');
    }
    else
    {
        /*
         * 60 seconds/minute
         * This means that the time difference is a matter of minutes
         */
        return get_time_ago_string($time_stamp, 60, 'minute');
    }
}

function get_time_ago_string($time_stamp, $divisor, $time_unit)
{
    $time_difference = strtotime("now") - $time_stamp;
    $time_units      = floor($time_difference / $divisor);

    settype($time_units, 'string');

    if ($time_units === '0')
    {
        return 'less than 1 ' . $time_unit . ' ago';
    }
    elseif ($time_units === '1')
    {
        return '1 ' . $time_unit . ' ago';
    }
    else
    {
        /*
         * More than "1" $time_unit. This is the "plural" message.
         */
        // TODO: This pluralizes the time unit, which is done by adding "s" at the end; this will not work for i18n!
        return $time_units . ' ' . $time_unit . 's ago';
    }
}

Answer 2

I think I have a function which should do what you want:

function time2string($timeline) {
    $periods = array('day' => 86400, 'hour' => 3600, 'minute' => 60, 'second' => 1);

    foreach($periods AS $name => $seconds){
        $num = floor($timeline / $seconds);
        $timeline -= ($num * $seconds);
        $ret .= $num.' '.$name.(($num > 1) ? 's' : '').' ';
    }

    return trim($ret);
}

Simply apply it to the difference between time() and strtotime('2010-04-28 17:25:43') as so:

print time2string(time()-strtotime('2010-04-28 17:25:43')).' ago';

Answer 3

Use This one and you can get the

    $previousDate = '2013-7-26 17:01:10';
    $startdate = new DateTime($previousDate);
    $endDate   = new DateTime('now');
    $interval  = $endDate->diff($startdate);
    echo$interval->format('%y years, %m months, %d days');

Refer this http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/dateinterval.format.php

Answer 4

Convert [saved_date] to timestamp. Get current timestamp.

current timestamp - [saved_date] timestamp.

Then you can format it with date();

You can normally convert most date formats to timestamps with the strtotime() function.

Answer 5

Improvisation to the function "humanTiming" by arnorhs. It would calculate a "fully stretched" translation of time string to human readable text version. For example to say it like "1 week 2 days 1 hour 28 minutes 14 seconds"

function humantime ($oldtime, $newtime = null, $returnarray = false)    {
    if(!$newtime) $newtime = time();
    $time = $newtime - $oldtime; // to get the time since that moment
    $tokens = array (
            31536000 => 'year',
            2592000 => 'month',
            604800 => 'week',
            86400 => 'day',
            3600 => 'hour',
            60 => 'minute',
            1 => 'second'
    );
    $htarray = array();
    foreach ($tokens as $unit => $text) {
            if ($time < $unit) continue;
            $numberOfUnits = floor($time / $unit);
            $htarray[$text] = $numberOfUnits.' '.$text.(($numberOfUnits>1)?'s':'');
            $time = $time - ( $unit * $numberOfUnits );
    }
    if($returnarray) return $htarray;
    return implode(' ', $htarray);
}

Answer 6

Here I am using custom function for finding the time elapsed since a date time.

echo Datetodays('2013-7-26 17:01:10');

function Datetodays($d) {

        $date_start = $d;
        $date_end = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

        define('SECOND', 1);
        define('MINUTE', SECOND * 60);
        define('HOUR', MINUTE * 60);
        define('DAY', HOUR * 24);
        define('WEEK', DAY * 7);

        $t1 = strtotime($date_start);
        $t2 = strtotime($date_end);
        if ($t1 > $t2) {
            $diffrence = $t1 - $t2;
        } else {
            $diffrence = $t2 - $t1;
        }

        //echo "
".$date_end."  ".$date_start."  ".$diffrence;
        $results['major'] = array(); // whole number representing larger number in date time relationship
        $results1 = array();
        $string = '';

        $results['major']['weeks'] = floor($diffrence / WEEK);
        $results['major']['days'] = floor($diffrence / DAY);
        $results['major']['hours'] = floor($diffrence / HOUR);
        $results['major']['minutes'] = floor($diffrence / MINUTE);
        $results['major']['seconds'] = floor($diffrence / SECOND);

        //print_r($results);
        // Logic:
        // Step 1: Take the major result and transform it into raw seconds (it will be less the number of seconds of the difference)
        // ex: $result = ($results['major']['weeks']*WEEK)
        // Step 2: Subtract smaller number (the result) from the difference (total time)
        // ex: $minor_result = $difference - $result
        // Step 3: Take the resulting time in seconds and convert it to the minor format
        // ex: floor($minor_result/DAY)

        $results1['weeks'] = floor($diffrence / WEEK);
        $results1['days'] = floor((($diffrence - ($results['major']['weeks'] * WEEK)) / DAY));
        $results1['hours'] = floor((($diffrence - ($results['major']['days'] * DAY)) / HOUR));
        $results1['minutes'] = floor((($diffrence - ($results['major']['hours'] * HOUR)) / MINUTE));
        $results1['seconds'] = floor((($diffrence - ($results['major']['minutes'] * MINUTE)) / SECOND));

        //print_r($results1);

        if ($results1['weeks'] != 0 && $results1['days'] == 0) {
            if ($results1['weeks'] == 1) {
                $string = $results1['weeks'] . ' week ago';
            } else {
                if ($results1['weeks'] == 2) {
                    $string = $results1['weeks'] . ' weeks ago';
                } else {
                    $string = '2 weeks ago';
                }
            }
        } elseif ($results1['weeks'] != 0 && $results1['days'] != 0) {
            if ($results1['weeks'] == 1) {
                $string = $results1['weeks'] . ' week ago';
            } else {
                if ($results1['weeks'] == 2) {
                    $string = $results1['weeks'] . ' weeks ago';
                } else {
                    $string = '2 weeks ago';
                }
            }
        } elseif ($results1['weeks'] == 0 && $results1['days'] != 0) {
            if ($results1['days'] == 1) {
                $string = $results1['days'] . ' day ago';
            } else {
                $string = $results1['days'] . ' days ago';
            }
        } elseif ($results1['days'] != 0 && $results1['hours'] != 0) {
            $string = $results1['days'] . ' day and ' . $results1['hours'] . ' hours ago';
        } elseif ($results1['days'] == 0 && $results1['hours'] != 0) {
            if ($results1['hours'] == 1) {
                $string = $results1['hours'] . ' hour ago';
            } else {
                $string = $results1['hours'] . ' hours ago';
            }
        } elseif ($results1['hours'] != 0 && $results1['minutes'] != 0) {
            $string = $results1['hours'] . ' hour and ' . $results1['minutes'] . ' minutes ago';
        } elseif ($results1['hours'] == 0 && $results1['minutes'] != 0) {
            if ($results1['minutes'] == 1) {
                $string = $results1['minutes'] . ' minute ago';
            } else {
                $string = $results1['minutes'] . ' minutes ago';
            }
        } elseif ($results1['minutes'] != 0 && $results1['seconds'] != 0) {
            $string = $results1['minutes'] . ' minute and ' . $results1['seconds'] . ' seconds ago';
        } elseif ($results1['minutes'] == 0 && $results1['seconds'] != 0) {
            if ($results1['seconds'] == 1) {
                $string = $results1['seconds'] . ' second ago';
            } else {
                $string = $results1['seconds'] . ' seconds ago';
            }
        }
        return $string;
    }
?>