Converting a unix time stamp to twitter/facebook style

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I'm trying to convert a unix time stamp to display like facebook and twitter. For example, when you see tweets or comments placed on twitter/facebook you see the date/time displayed like so:

'2 mins ago' or '2 days ago' or '2 weeks ago'

Does anyone one know of any function to get it working like this. I'm guessing it will be a custom one.

Any help is much appreciated

string-to-datetime unix-timestamp timestamp datetime php
3 Answers

Simple script that takes time in seconds and works great

function twitter_time($time) {
  $delta = time() - strtotime($time);
  if ($delta < 60) {
    return '30sec ago';
  } else if ($delta < 120) {
    return '1m ago';
  } else if ($delta < (60 * 60)) {
    return floor($delta / 60) . 'm ago';
  } else if ($delta < (120 * 60)) {
    return '1h ago';
  } else if ($delta < (24 * 60 * 60)) {
    return floor($delta / 3600) . 'h ago';
  } else if ($delta < (48 * 60 * 60)) {
    return '1d ago';
  } else if ($delta < (86400*7)) {
    return floor($delta / 86400) . 'd ago';
  } else if ($delta < (2*86400*7)) {
    return '1week ago';
  } else if ($delta < (2592000)) {
    return floor($delta / (86400*7)) . 'weeks ago';
  } else if ($delta < (2*2592000)) {
    return '1mon ago';
  } else if ($delta < (31104000)) {
    return floor($delta / 2592000) . 'mon ago';
  } else if ($delta < (2*31104000)) {
    return '1year ago';
  } else {
    return number_format(floor($delta / 31104000)) . 'years ago';
  } 
}
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