Converting Timestamp to Time Ago in PHP

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Hello Friends, Its being very long time I haven’t posted anything due to busy life schedule but today I have some free time to write a post and also a code which I had found over internet yesterday while working on a client’s project. In that project I had to show time in Ago format (i.e 1 month ago, 2 minutes ago, etc ) by converting Timestamp (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) or Epoch timestamp. So Let’s start without wasting any time.

Here is the Function

function time_elapsed_string($datetime, $full = false) {
    $now = new DateTime;
    $ago = new DateTime($datetime);
    $diff = $now->diff($ago);

    $diff->w = floor($diff->d / 7);
    $diff->d -= $diff->w * 7;

    $string = array(
        'y' => 'year',
        'm' => 'month',
        'w' => 'week',
        'd' => 'day',
        'h' => 'hour',
        'i' => 'minute',
        's' => 'second',
    );
    foreach ($string as $k => &$v) {
        if ($diff->$k) {
            $v = $diff->$k . ' ' . $v . ($diff->$k > 1 ? 's' : '');
        } else {
            unset($string[$k]);
        }
    }

    if (!$full) $string = array_slice($string, 0, 1);
    return $string ? implode(', ', $string) . ' ago' : 'just now';
}

function time_elapsed_string($datetime, $full = false) {

$now = new DateTime;

$ago = new DateTime($datetime);

$diff = $now->diff($ago);

$diff->w = floor($diff->d / 7);

$diff->d -= $diff->w * 7;

$string = array(

'y' => 'year',

'm' => 'month',

'w' => 'week',

'd' => 'day',

'h' => 'hour',

'i' => 'minute',

's' => 'second',

);

foreach ($string as $k => &$v) {

if ($diff->$k) {

$v = $diff->$k . ' ' . $v . ($diff->$k > 1 ? 's' : '');

} else {

unset($string[$k]);

}

if (!$full) $string = array_slice($string, 0, 1);

return $string ? implode(', ', $string) . ' ago' : 'just now';

}

Usage Example

echo time_elapsed_string('2022-09-02 00:22:35');
echo time_elapsed_string('@1662093103'); # epoch timestamp input
echo time_elapsed_string('2022-09-02 00:22:35', true);

echo time_elapsed_string('2022-09-02 00:22:35');

echo time_elapsed_string('@1662093103'); # epoch timestamp input

echo time_elapsed_string('2022-09-02 00:22:35', true);

Output

10 hours ago
10 hours ago
10 hours, 3 minutes, 58 seconds ago

10 hours ago

10 hours, 3 minutes, 58 seconds ago

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TimeAgo PHP Script

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