Show time ago like Facebook post in PHP

Gaurav Dixit (Software Engineer)

Show time ago like Facebook post in PHP


We will create a function for this and print the time with function name and it will convert the current timestamp and actual post_submitted timestamp difference.

<?php
 
function timeAgo($time_ago) {
$time_ago = strtotime($time_ago);
$cur_time   = time();
$time_elapsed   = $cur_time - $time_ago;
$seconds    = $time_elapsed ;
$minutes    = round($time_elapsed / 60 );
$hours      = round($time_elapsed / 3600);
$days       = round($time_elapsed / 86400 );
$weeks      = round($time_elapsed / 604800);
$months     = round($time_elapsed / 2600640 );
$years      = round($time_elapsed / 31207680 );
 
// Seconds
if($seconds &lt;= 60){
    return "just now";
}
 
//Minutes
else if($minutes &lt;=60){
    if($minutes==1){
        return "1 minute ago";
    }
    else{
        return "$minutes minutes ago";
    }
}
 
//Hours
else if($hours &lt;=24){
    if($hours==1){
        return "an hour ago";
    }else{
        return "$hours hrs ago";
    }
}
 
//Days
else if($days &lt;= 7){
    if($days==1){
        return "yesterday";
    }else{
        return "$days days ago";
    }
}
 
//Weeks
else if($weeks &lt;= 4.3){
    if($weeks==1){
        return "a week ago";
    }else{
        return "$weeks weeks ago";
    }
}
 
//Months
else if($months &lt;=12){
    if($months==1){
        return "a month ago";
    }else{
        return "$months months ago";
    }
}
 
//Years
else{
    if($years==1){
        return "1 year ago";
    }else{
        return "$years years ago";
    }
}
}
?>



After write this function we will have to call the function. First we will create a variable for date and then print it.


$posted_time = "2020-27-02 20:20:20";
 
// For Print with timeago
 
echo timeAgo($posted_time);
/* timeAgo is function which had created
eariler and $posted_time is variable where time has been stored.*/

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