The package is availabe here on Github and on Packagist
Using composer you can just do the following
composer require jimmiw/php-time-ago
There is now only one way to get the time ago in words
$timeAgo = new Westsworld\TimeAgo();
echo $timeAgo->inWords("2010/1/10 23:05:00");
Both methods gives the same answer, the "timeAgoInWords()" function is just a convenience wrapper for you.
Good news for you then! I've implemented a nice little function that does just that for you. Simply do the following:
$timeAgo = new Westsworld\TimeAgo();
$dateDifferenceArray = $timeAgo->dateDifference("2017-03-02 07:53:00", "2017-03-02 07:53:01");
This will return an array with the following data:
[
'years' => 0
'months' => 0
'days' => 0
'hours' => 0
'minutes' => 0
'seconds' => 1
]
0 <-> 29 secs # => less than a minute
30 secs <-> 1 min, 29 secs # => 1 minute
1 min, 30 secs <-> 44 mins, 29 secs # => [2..44] minutes
44 mins, 30 secs <-> 89 mins, 29 secs # => about 1 hour
89 mins, 29 secs <-> 23 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs # => about [2..24] hours
23 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs <-> 47 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs # => 1 day
47 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs <-> 29 days, 23 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs # => [2..29] days
29 days, 23 hrs, 59 mins, 30 secs <-> 59 days, 23 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs # => about 1 month
59 days, 23 hrs, 59 mins, 30 secs <-> 1 yr minus 1 sec # => [2..12] months
1 yr <-> 2 yrs minus 1 secs # => about 1 year
2 yrs <-> max time or date # => over [2..X] years
Lots have changed since the last version. The WWDateTime class is no longer supported. I have implemented a new class which takes a time string as parameter (and a timezone if needed), and calculates the time between them.
By request from "lsolesen" (a guy from here on github) I did removed the whole DateTime dependence thingy.
Inspired by the comments at:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M001695
You should really look in to the Carbon project, it looks very nice and gives the same functionality and a lot more.
This class is here to give you the same functionality that DateTime::diff will give you.
Version 0.4.x was the big translations release.
You can now translate the texts returned using the $timeAgo->inWords() or timeAgoInWords() methods. The translation is simply a language code string added to the end of the class init or timeAgoInWords() method.
Examples using the Danish translations:
$timeZone = null; // just use the system timezone
$timeAgo = new Westsworld\TimeAgo($timeZone, 'da'); // default language is en (english)
echo $timeAgo->inWords("2010/1/10 23:05:00");
- Added Catalan translation, thanks to @Ajenbo and @esrefesen
- Added Swedish translation, thanks to @khromov
- Added Gregorian translation, thanks to @nikopeikrishvili
- Added Vietnamese translation, thanks to @baivong
- Removed user specific files from .gitignore
- Using strict comparison
- Added a method for rounding the number of months to use
- Fixed a file encoding problem on the korean translation
- Added a never translate on the turkish translation (thanks to @esrefesen)
Now using namespaces to handle the source.
- Added Westsworld namespace to the TimeAgo project.
- Removed the function "timeAgoInWords", since i really didn't like having it around.
- Removed the very deprecated WWDateTime class.
- Fixed unittests after namespace introduction.
- Updated composer.lock
- Updated .travis.yml
Introducing exceptions (so remember to handle them) and removed the old way of overloading the translations path. Also renamed a few methods. Both things breaks the current API, so I've bumped it to version 1.0.0
- An exception is now thrown, if a translation file cannot be added.
- An exception is now thrown, if the translation file is empty.
- Made timechecks a lot easier to read, by moving them into a "isLessThanX" method.
- Added unittests to test the loading of translations.
- Added unittest for dateDifference.
- Removed: _loadTranslations($language, $alternativePath), you can no longer use alternativePath, if extending the component. Instead I added a define called TIMEAGO_TRANSLATION_PATH, which can be used to override the translations path
- Renamed _loadTranslations to loadTranslations
- Renamed _translate to translate
Added Turkish translation (@esrefesen), and Thai (@jaideejung007) and iranian- Farsi(Persian) (@datamweb) and French (@lamberttraccard)
Added Arabic translation (@xc0d3rz)
@jmontoyaa fixed a timezone setting bug
Merged #18, #33 (you can now supply an alternative translations folder), #35 and Added Czech (@misaon)
Changes to French translation (@souhailmerroun). Added Russian and Ukranian translations (@akavolkol)
Added Korean and Finnish translations (thanks to @easylogic and @tk1sul1)
Added Spanish and Hungarian and Brazilian Portuguese (thanks to @khrizt and @technodelight and @gugoan)
Added French and Japanese and Taiwanese translations (thanks to @barohatoum and @hotengchang)
Changes to fix annoying "floor" bugs.
Added Dutch and Chinese translations (thanks to @NielsdeBlaauw and @su-xiaolin)
Fix for wrongly named variable - patch from @rimager
Changed the previous fix, since it caused a problem with the "Scheme" at the start of this document. "about 1 hour ago" is between 44mins30secs and 89mins29secs.
Added a fix for "about 1 hour ago", which would yield "1 hours ago" if the time was 1hour 30minutes. Giving a pluralization error.
Added German translations .
Added "ago" to the end of the translations, so the texts now read "about 1 hour ago".
Added translations (Danish and English) to the plugin.
Just if you wanted to try out the old "time ago" class, I've kept it in the project. It will eventually be deleted, but hey, go have fun with it. Perhaps even extend it etc. Bear in mind though, that the new DateTime::diff in PHP version 5.3.0 will eventually replace it completely. (PHP 5.3.0 DateTime::diff link: http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.diff.php)
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