Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Ago Timestamp PHP function

A php function to find how much time ago the timestamp was

function ago($timestamp){
$difference = time() - $timestamp;
$periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "years", "decade");
$lengths = array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","10");
for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j]; $j++)
$difference /= $lengths[$j];
$difference = round($difference);
if($difference != 1) $periods[$j].= "s";
$text = "$difference $periods[$j] ago";
return $text;
}

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