convert time stamp to time ago in php?

Question

I know this question has been asked several times and I found so many tutorials, blog posts about converting timestamp to ago time in php..

I have tried countless c

Answer 1

You should use the DateTime class to get the difference between 2 times, ie;

$time1 = new DateTime('2014-10-06 09:00:59');
$now = new DateTime();
$interval = $time1->diff($now,true);

and then use that difference (which is a DateInterval object, $interval) to find the smallest time difference like this;

if ($interval->y) echo $interval->y . ' years';
elseif ($interval->m) echo $interval->m . ' months';
elseif ($interval->d) echo $interval->d . ' days';
elseif ($interval->h) echo $interval->h . ' hours';
elseif ($interval->i) echo $interval->i . ' minutes';
else echo "less than 1 minute";

which should echo (at time of writing) 13 hours.

Hope this helps.