[RESOLVED] timestamp problem hr ago question

[bluemonster]

Hi
Can anyone help me how to fix below problem, it will hangs. How to do do

example 2min ago??

function ago($timestamp){ 
    $difference = time() - $timestamp; 
     if ($difference >=(5 * 60 * 60) && $difference<=(24 * 60 * 60) ) { 
     return ('Today'); 
     } 
    $periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "years", "decade"); 
    $lengths = array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","10"); 
    for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j]; $j++) 
      $difference /= $lengths[$j]; 
    $difference = round($difference); 
    if($difference != 1) $periods[$j].= "s"; 
    $text = "$difference $periods[$j] ago"; 
    return $text; 
  } 

[Scriptmaker]

Didn't have any problems when I ran it. How were you calling the function?

Here's how I did it:

<?php 
function ago($timestamp){
    $difference = time() - $timestamp;
     if ($difference >=(5 * 60 * 60) && $difference<=(24 * 60 * 60) ) {
     return ('Today');
     }
    $periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "years", "decade");
    $lengths = array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","10");
    for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j]; $j++)
      $difference /= $lengths[$j];
    $difference = round($difference);
    if($difference != 1) $periods[$j].= "s";
    $text = "$difference $periods[$j] ago";
    return $text;
  } 

$time = time()-(2*60); //take the current time and subtract 2 minutes
echo ago($time); //display result of sending this timestamp to the function.

?>

[bluemonster]

example 2007-07-24 03:43:24, how do i convert to xx hr ago or 5 days 2 hr ago...

[NogDog]

"2007-07-24 03:43:24" is a string, time() is an integer (number of seconds since the "UNIX epoch"). Thus it makes no sense to subtract the former from the latter. Try calling your function this way:

$result = ago(strtotime("2007-07-24 03:43:24"));

[bluemonster]

okay i read php.net manual. found it.

[Scriptmaker]

Glad to hear it.

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