mpratt / relativetime
A library that calculates the time difference between two dates and returns the result in words (Example: 5 minutes ago or 5 Minutes left). The library supports other languages aswell like Spanish and German.
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Requires
- php: >=5.3
Requires (Dev)
- phpstan/phpstan: ^1.4
- phpunit/phpunit: *
README
RelativeTime is a lightweight and easy to use library that helps you calculate the time difference between two dates and returns the result in words
(like, 5 minutes ago or 5 minutes left). The library supports other languages as well like Spanish
, PortugueseBR
, French
, Czech
, Russian
,
SimplifiedChinese
, Swedish
and German
It uses the standard \DateTime() and \DateInterval() classes found in modern PHP versions. For more information, please read the Usage
section of
this README.
Requirements
- PHP >= 5.3 (Tested only on PHP +7.3)
Installation
Install with Composer
If you're using Composer to manage dependencies, you can use this library by creating a composer.json file and adding this:
{
"require": {
"mpratt/relativetime": "~1.0"
}
}
Save it and run composer.phar install
Standalone Installation (without Composer)
Download the latest release or clone this repository, place the Lib/RelativeTime
directory somewhere in your project. Afterwards, you only need to include
the included Autoload.php
file.
require '/path/to/RelativeTime/Autoload.php'; use RelativeTime\RelativeTime; $relativeTime = new RelativeTime();
Or if you already have PSR-0 compliant autoloader, you just need to register RelativeTime:
$loader->registerNamespace('RelativeTime', 'path/to/RelativeTime');
Usage
Most of the times you are going to need the convert($fromDate, $toDate)
method.
use RelativeTime\RelativeTime; $relativeTime = new RelativeTime(); echo $relativeTime->convert('2010-09-05', '2010-03-30'); // 5 months, 6 days ago $relativeTime = new RelativeTime(); echo $relativeTime->convert('2012-03-05', '2013/02/05'); // 11 months left
There are 2 other useful methods timeAgo($date)
and timeLeft($date)
, that calculate the time since/until
the current date/time.
use RelativeTime\RelativeTime; // Asumming Today is the 2013-09-23 17:23:47 $relativeTime = new RelativeTime(); echo $relativeTime->timeAgo('2012-08-29 06:00'); // 1 year, 25 days, 16 hours, 23 minutes, 13 seconds ago $relativeTime = new RelativeTime(); echo $relativeTime->timeLeft('2013-10-31 01:00:05'); // 1 month, 7 days, 2 hours, 36 minutes, 52 seconds left
Configuration Options
The main object accepts an array with configuration directives
use RelativeTime\RelativeTime; $config = array( 'language' => '\RelativeTime\Languages\English', 'separator' => ', ', 'suffix' => true, 'truncate' => 0, 'use_weeks' => false, ); $relativeTime = new RelativeTime($config);
Author
Michael Pratt - yo@michael-pratt.com - http://www.michael-pratt.com See also the list of contributors which participated in this project.
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License
RelativeTime is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details