PHP How to find the time elapsed since a date time? [duplicate]

Answer 1

I think I have a function which should do what you want:

function time2string($timeline) {
    $periods = array('day' => 86400, 'hour' => 3600, 'minute' => 60, 'second' => 1);

    foreach($periods AS $name => $seconds){
        $num = floor($timeline / $seconds);
        $timeline -= ($num * $seconds);
        $ret .= $num.' '.$name.(($num > 1) ? 's' : '').' ';
    }

    return trim($ret);
}

Simply apply it to the difference between time() and strtotime('2010-04-28 17:25:43') as so:

print time2string(time()-strtotime('2010-04-28 17:25:43')).' ago';