Well, after looking around the web at all the bad implementations of a simple human time difference function - I came up with this for MicroMVC. It seems to do the job well and I thought I might share it here for other to use as I thought I remembered seeing some questions about this somewhere.
/**
* Show a human-readable time difference ("10 seconds")
*
* @see MicroMVC.com
* @param int $from_time
* @param int $to_time
* @return string
*/
function time_difference($from_time=0, $to_time=null) {
//If not set - use current time
if(!$to_time) { $to_time= time(); }
//timestamp difference
$difference = round(abs($to_time - $from_time));
//Try seconds first
if ($difference <= 60) {
return $difference. ' seconds';
}
//Time Types (you can add to this)
$times = array(
'minute' => 60,
'hour' => 60,
'day' => 24,
'week' => 7,
'month' => 4,
'year' => 12
);
//Try each type of time
foreach($times as $type => $value) {
//Find number of minutes
$difference = round($difference / $value);
if ($difference <= $value) {
return $difference. ' '. $type. ($difference > 1 ? 's' : '');
}
}
}
I don’t think it’s necessary, but it’s GPL in case anyone is worried about using it.
