Using Carbon to return a human readable datetime difference

Question

I\'m using Laravel 4 to create my project.

I am currently building the comments section and I want to display how long ago the post was created, kin

Answer 1

By default, Eloquent will convert the created_at, updated_at, and deleted_at columns to instances of Carbon. So, your code should be just like this:

$comment->created_at->diffForHumans();

It's very cool. It'll produce string like 2 minutes ago or 1 day ago. Plurar or singular, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, or years, it runs automatically. I've tested it on Laravel version 4.1.24.