bendahrooge/relative-time

Relative Time Calculator for PHP in 100 lines

RelativeTime

Relative Time Calculator for PHP in 100 lines Relative time has been increasing popular amoung social media applications and micro-blog posts where the exact date content was posted isn't important or can be confusing to the end-user. The Library compares two Unix timestamps and outputs the elapsed time in minutes, hours, days, months or years., _(*1)

Note: Relative time is different from elapsed time. Elapsed time has a focus on accuracy whereas relative time tries to be as human-readable as possible-even if it uses excessive rounding to do so. Relative time is not supposed to be accurate, therefore it should only be utilized in specific use cases., _(*2)

Install via composer

Run this command in this command in your terminal to quickly install the package using composer., _(*3)

composer require bendahrooge/relative-time

If you don't know what composer is (its pretty awesum) check out the documentation to install it., _(*4)

Getting Relative Time

If you're using composer, the class will already be included by default on every script. You can start an instance of the class like this:, _(*5)

$RelativeTime = new bendahrooge\RelativeTime;

The Library has 3 public functions avaible for use. All functions only support Unix time at the moment, if you wanna fix that and make a pull request that's cool., _(*6)

$RelativeTime = new bendahrooge\RelativeTime;

$lastyear = $RelativeTime->since(1420000000); //This is Unix time for Wed Dec 31 2014 04:26:40
$afewdays = $RelativeTime->between(array(1449964800, 1450137600)); //About 1 day passing
$cantwait = $RelativeTime->until(1513296000); //Some time in the future