Subtract some date and time from current date and time to find age in PHP

Question

Suppose I have a ticket $create_time = \"2016-08-02 12:35:04\". I want to subtract the $create_time from current date and time like $current_

Answer 1

You should use DateTime class.

$create_time = "2016-08-02 12:35:04";
$current_time="2016-08-02 16:16:02";

$dtCurrent = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $current_time);
$dtCreate = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $create_time);
$diff = $dtCurrent->diff($dtCreate);

echo $diff->format("%Y-%m-%d %H:%i");

This returns 00-0-0 03:40 See DateInterval::format for more formatting details.

Answer 2

You need to progressively work through the timestamp to extract Days, Minutes & Hours. You can use something like this.

function timeSince($t)
{
    $timeSince = time() - $t;

    $pars = array (
        31536000 => 'year',
        2592000 => 'month',
        604800 => 'week',
        86400 => 'day',
        3600 => 'hour',
        60 => 'minute',
        1 => 'second'
    );

    $result = '';
    $counter = 1;
    foreach ($pars as $unit => $text) {
        if ($timeSince < $unit) continue;
        if ($counter > 2) break;

        $numberOfUnits = floor($timeSince / $unit);
        $result .= "$numberOfUnits $text ";
        $timeSince -= $numberOfUnits * $unit;
        ++$counter;
    }

    return "{$result} ago..";
}

Credit https://stackoverflow.com/a/20171268/1106380