Relative Time Calculator for PHP in 100 lines Relative time has been increasing popular amoung social media applications and micro-blog posts where the exact date content was posted isn't important or can be confusing to the end-user. The Library compares two Unix timestamps and outputs the elapsed time in minutes, hours, days, months or years.
Note: Relative time is different from elapsed time. Elapsed time has a focus on accuracy whereas relative time tries to be as human-readable as possible-even if it uses excessive rounding to do so. Relative time is not supposed to be accurate, therefore it should only be utilized in specific use cases.
Run this command in this command in your terminal to quickly install the package using composer.
composer require bendahrooge/relative-time
If you don't know what composer is (its pretty awesum) check out the documentation to install it.
If you're using composer, the class will already be included by default on every script. You can start an instance of the class like this:
$RelativeTime = new bendahrooge\RelativeTime;
The Library has 3 public functions avaible for use. All functions only support Unix time at the moment, if you wanna fix that and make a pull request that's cool.
$RelativeTime = new bendahrooge\RelativeTime;
$lastyear = $RelativeTime->since(1420000000); //This is Unix time for Wed Dec 31 2014 04:26:40
$afewdays = $RelativeTime->between(array(1449964800, 1450137600)); //About 1 day passing
$cantwait = $RelativeTime->until(1513296000); //Some time in the future