This function can be used for comments and other from of communication to tell the time ago instead of the exact time. This method used many of the social websites like facebook, twitter, google plus, etc.,
We can achieve this following two methods.
Method 1:
function ago($time)
{
$periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "year", "decade");
$lengths = array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","10");
$now = time();
$difference = $now - $time;
$tense = "ago";
for($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] 'ago' ";
}
Method 2:
function _ago($tm,$rcs = 0) {
$cur_tm = time(); $dif = $cur_tm-$tm;
$pds = array('second','minute','hour','day','week','month','year','decade');
$lngh = array(1,60,3600,86400,604800,2630880,31570560,315705600);
for($v = sizeof($lngh)-1; ($v >= 0)&&(($no = $dif/$lngh[$v]) 1) $pds[$v] .='s'; $x=sprintf("%d %s ",$no,$pds[$v]);
if(($rcs == 1)&&($v >= 1)&&(($cur_tm-$_tm) > 0)) $x .= time_ago($_tm);
return $x;
}
