RELATIVE DATES - FACEBOOK STYLE - May 8th, 2011
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Chris Waddell from Interactive Tools just wrote a function that turns a date into a more human-readable format such as
"37 seconds ago", "about an hour ago", "Wednesday at 6:07pm", or "February 17, 2007", depending on how far in the past
the date is. (It doesn't handle future-dates at all.)
This code can go anywhere before it's first used:
<?php
function pretty_relative_time($time) {
if ($time !== intval($time)) { $time = strtotime($time); }
$d = time() - $time;
if ($time < strtotime(date('Y-m-d 00:00:00')) - 60*60*24*3) {
$format = 'F j';
if (date('Y') !== date('Y', $time)) {
$format .= ", Y";
}
return date($format, $time);
}
if ($d >= 60*60*24) {
$day = 'Yesterday';
if (date('l', time() - 60*60*24) !== date('l', $time)) { $day = date('l', $time); }
return $day . " at " . date('g:ia', $time);
}
if ($d >= 60*60*2) { return intval($d / (60*60)) . " hours ago"; }
if ($d >= 60*60) { return "about an hour ago"; }
if ($d >= 60*2) { return intval($d / 60) . " minutes ago"; }
if ($d >= 60) { return "about a minute ago"; }
if ($d >= 2) { return intval($d) . " seconds ago"; }
return "a few seconds ago";
}
?>
And here's how to call it in the body of your page:
<?php echo pretty_relative_date($record['createdDate']); ?>
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