Help with finding how may "days ago"..

helloimthevoid

hello i was wondering what is the proper way of finding out how old a newspost or headline would be on a site.

for instance i post something today and a week later the same post is still up but below that it will notify the user that it has been 7 days old.

i've seen sites where they do this but also verify how many hours old it is as well.

any help would be super greatly appreciated.

thanks!

Daveyz1983

When you are storing the news/notices in your database, create a additional "timestored" field where you will store the date/time of when the news/notice was posted.

A good way of retrieving the time is http://www.php.net/time.

To find the 7 day difference, simply count the number of seconds there are in 7 days.

7 x 24(hours) x 60(mins) x 60(seconds) = 604800

So what you do is when the user login into the page, retrieve the current time date using time() and then do some maths to the time stored in the database.

If ($currenttime - $time_in_db > 604800) {
echo "this is old news";
} else {
echo "this news is posted within the last 7 days";
}

helloimthevoid

the user wont really login they will just come to the site and view the news.

so everytime they go to the site it will tell them how old the news item will be.

but let me try that link you gave me.

thanks!

Daveyz1983

Alright i correct myself, I just means when the user Log In to ur website, meaning visit your website, you will call the time() function and get the current time date. the user not neccessary needs to login with a username/password for u to get the current time/date