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Display date time by nice format
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function nicetime($date){ | |
if(empty($date)) { | |
return "No date provided"; | |
} | |
$periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "year", "decade"); | |
$lengths = array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","10"); | |
$now = time(); | |
$unix_date = strtotime($date); | |
// check validity of date | |
if(empty($unix_date)) { | |
return "Bad date"; | |
} | |
// is it future date or past date | |
if($now > $unix_date) { | |
$difference = $now - $unix_date; | |
$tense = "ago"; | |
} else { | |
$difference = $unix_date - $now; | |
$tense = "from now"; | |
} | |
for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j] && $j < count($lengths)-1; $j++) { | |
$difference /= $lengths[$j]; | |
} | |
$difference = round($difference); | |
if($difference != 1) { | |
$periods[$j].= "s"; | |
} | |
return "$difference $periods[$j] {$tense}"; | |
} |
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