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pear / date_humandiff
Generate textual time differences that are easily understandable by humans.
v0.5.0
2014-03-23 12:03 UTC
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Last update: 2024-12-11 19:17:47 UTC
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Generate textual time differences that are easily understandable by humans.
The class supports minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years.
Examples:
- 5 seconds ago -> just now
- 65 seconds ago -> a minute ago
- 120 seconds ago -> 2 minutes ago
- a week ago
- 3 weeks ago
- a month ago
- 8 months ago
- a year ago
- 5 years ago
Usage
<?php require_once 'Date/HumanDiff.php'; $dh = new Date_HumanDiff(); echo $dh->get(time() - 3600);//shows "an hour ago" echo $dh->get(time() + 3600 * 24, time()); //shows "tomorrow" ?>
Supported languages
- German
- English
- Greek
- Persian
- Russian
Use a language with setLocale():
$dh = new Date_HumanDiff();
$dh->setLocale('de');
echo $dh->get(time() - 60 * 5) . "\n"; //shows "vor 5 Minuten"
Other libraries
- https://github.com/azer/relative-date/blob/master/lib/relative-date.js
- Javascript; library that's been used as base for Date_HumanDiff
- https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago
- Javascript; with localization options
- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/py-pretty
- Python