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Topic: Time ago for blog post - snippet

It comes from: http://php.snipplicious.com/snippet/30/time-ago

Time ago

Compute how many days/weeks/years ago is given timestamp ago from current date. As you can see on facebook for example like "2 days ago"

function timeAgo($time_ago)
{
    $cur_time   = time();
    $time_elapsed   = $cur_time - $time_ago;
    $seconds    = $time_elapsed ;
    $minutes    = round($time_elapsed / 60 );
    $hours      = round($time_elapsed / 3600);
    $days       = round($time_elapsed / 86400 );
    $weeks      = round($time_elapsed / 604800);
    $months     = round($time_elapsed / 2600640 );
    $years      = round($time_elapsed / 31207680 );
    // Seconds
    if($seconds <= 60){
        return "just now";
    }
    //Minutes
    else if($minutes <=60){
        if($minutes==1){
            return "one minute ago";
        }
        else{
            return "$minutes minutes ago";
        }
    }
    //Hours
    else if($hours <=24){
        if($hours==1){
            return "an hour ago";
        }else{
            return "$hours hrs ago";
        }
    }
    //Days
    else if($days <= 7){
        if($days==1){
            return "yesterday";
        }else{
            return "$days days ago";
        }
    }
    //Weeks
    else if($weeks <= 4.3){
        if($weeks==1){
            return "a week ago";
        }else{
            return "$weeks weeks ago";
        }
    }
    //Months
    else if($months <=12){
        if($months==1){
            return "a month ago";
        }else{
            return "$months months ago";
        }
    }
    //Years
    else{
        if($years==1){
            return "one year ago";
        }else{
            return "$years years ago";
        }
    }
}
echo "<h2>See examples for random timestamps</h2>";
$timestamp = rand(100000000,1000000000);
echo "<b>".$timestamp."</b>: " . timeAgo($timestamp) . "<br>";
$timestamp = time()-rand(1000000,10000000);
echo "<b>".$timestamp."</b>: " . timeAgo($timestamp) . "<br>";
$timestamp = time()-rand(10000,1000000);
echo "<b>".$timestamp."</b>: " . timeAgo($timestamp) . "<br>";