README

Getting started

The package is availabe here on Github and on Packagist

• https://github.com/jimmiw/php-time-ago
• https://packagist.org/packages/jimmiw/php-time-ago

Installing

Using composer you can just do the following

composer require jimmiw/php-time-ago

PHP Version notes

From version 3.3.0, we are not supporting the old php version. This is PHP 8.2 and up. This change was done, as there are security issues with older version of both PHP and PHPUnit.

This means that version 3.2.x and below support PHP 8.1 and below.

Using the component

There are two ways of getting the time ago in words.

By passing DateTime objects:

$timeAgo = new Westsworld\TimeAgo();
echo $timeAgo->inWords(new DateTime("2010-01-10 23:05:00"));

By passing strings:

$timeAgo = new Westsworld\TimeAgo();
echo $timeAgo->inWordsFromStrings("2010/1/10 23:05:00");

Both methods give the same answer, and use the same internal logic.

Do you want the actual years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds difference?

Good news for you then! I've implemented a nice little function that does just that for you. Simply do the following:

$timeAgo = new Westsworld\TimeAgo();
// NOTE: this is actually deprecated, since DateTime does the same. Still works though :)
$dateDifferenceArray =  $timeAgo->dateDifference("2017-03-02 07:53:00", "2017-03-02 07:53:01");

This will return an array with the following data:

[
	'years' => 0
	'months' => 0
	'days' => 0
	'hours' => 0
	'minutes' => 0
	'seconds' => 1
]

How to determine, what "ago" is

  0 <-> 29 secs                                                             # => less than a minute
  30 secs <-> 1 min, 29 secs                                                # => 1 minute
  1 min, 30 secs <-> 44 mins, 29 secs                                       # => [2..44] minutes
  44 mins, 30 secs <-> 89 mins, 29 secs                                     # => about 1 hour
  89 mins, 29 secs <-> 23 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs                             # => about [2..24] hours
  23 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs <-> 47 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs                     # => 1 day
  47 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs <-> 29 days, 23 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs            # => [2..29] days
  29 days, 23 hrs, 59 mins, 30 secs <-> 59 days, 23 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs   # => about 1 month
  59 days, 23 hrs, 59 mins, 30 secs <-> 1 yr minus 1 sec                    # => [2..12] months
  1 yr <-> 2 yrs minus 1 secs                                               # => about 1 year
  2 yrs <-> max time or date                                                # => over [2..X] years

Changes since last version

Lots have changed since the last version. The WWDateTime class is no longer supported. I have implemented a new class which takes a time string as parameter (and a timezone if needed), and calculates the time between them.

By request from "lsolesen" (a guy from here on github) I did removed the whole DateTime dependence thingy.

About

Inspired by the comments at:

http://dk.php.net/time

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M001695

You should really look in to the Carbon project, it looks very nice and gives the same functionality and a lot more.

This class is here to give you the same functionality that DateTime::diff will give you.

Translations added

Version 0.4.x was the big translations release.

You can now translate the texts returned using the $timeAgo->inWords() or timeAgoInWords() methods. The translation is simply a language code string added to the end of the class init or timeAgoInWords() method.

Examples using the Danish translations:

$myLang = new \Westsworld\TimeAgo\Translations\Da();

$timeAgo = new Westsworld\TimeAgo($myLang); // default language is en (english)
echo $timeAgo->inWords("2010/1/10 23:05:00");

Available translation languages

You can view the file of available list inside /src/Westsworld/TimeAgo/Translations/ folder.

Changelog

For a full list of changes, please see Changelog.md

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MIT License

Copyright © 2014 Jimmi Westerberg (http://westsworld.dk)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.