PHP to display number of days since given date?

[Dentafrice]

No... basically you said you MADE it... "I made this, it basically works abit like facebooks timer (under status' & posts etc..)".

[LMS16]

No... basically you said you MADE it... "I made this, it basically works abit like facebooks timer (under status' & posts etc..)".

Hence why I said I meant edit

Lew.

[HotelUser]

Hence why I said I meant edit

Lew.

I think it might be best to call a spade a spade and just move on - next time perhaps use a better vocabulary when posting snippets

[Dentafrice]

Now HotelUser, a spade isn't a spade! There's box shovels, round shovels, plumbers shovels, gardening shovels.

Well.. a spade's a spade I reckonnn!

[Flumples]

That's not what he asked for though, he wants to display the number of days, not seconds/minutes/hours.



That wouldn't work, it says time() - time().

I'd do this:

function plural($num) {
    if ($num != 1)
        return "s";
}
 
function getRelativeTime($date) {
    $diff = time() - $date;
    if ($diff<60)
        return $diff . " second" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    $diff = round($diff/60);
    if ($diff<60)
        return $diff . " minute" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    $diff = round($diff/60);
    if ($diff<24)
        return $diff . " hour" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    $diff = round($diff/24);
    if ($diff<7)
        return $diff . " day" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    $diff = round($diff/7);
    if ($diff<4)
        return $diff . " week" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    return "on " . date("F j, Y", strtotime($date));
}

// Unix timestamp for today at 17:21:19, replace this with a timestamp for whenever you want
$stampystamp = 1295803279;

// Display the number of seconds/minutes/hours/days/weeks since the timestamp
echo getRelativeTime($stampystamp); 

Untested and rushed, but should work.

Sorry, don't mean to bump, but this has broken now! :S

It now displays 'on January 1, 1970' as the output.. any ideas?

[Trinity]

Sorry, don't mean to bump, but this has broken now! :S

It now displays 'on January 1, 1970' as the output.. any ideas?

Significance of that date in case it helps - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1,_1970
Post the code that you're actually using.

[Flumples]

Thanks, I haven't actually changed anything yet cos it's the same as was posted earlier. It was working originally..

[Trinity]

Thanks, I haven't actually changed anything yet cos it's the same as was posted earlier. It was working originally..

Yes, so post the code that you're using to call that function.
Also, this is probably not the problem, but check your server's time/date settings.

[Flumples]

function plural($num) {
    if ($num != 1)
        return "s";
}
 
function getRelativeTime($date) {
    $diff = time() - $date;
    if ($diff<60)
        return $diff . " second" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    $diff = round($diff/60);
    if ($diff<60)
        return $diff . " minute" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    $diff = round($diff/60);
    if ($diff<24)
        return $diff . " hour" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    $diff = round($diff/24);
    if ($diff<7)
        return $diff . " day" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    $diff = round($diff/7);
    if ($diff<4)
        return $diff . " week" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    return "on " . date("F j, Y", strtotime($date));
}

// Unix timestamp for today at 17:21:19, replace this with a timestamp for whenever you want
$stampystamp = 1295803279;

// Display the number of seconds/minutes/hours/days/weeks since the timestamp
echo getRelativeTime($stampystamp); 

[Trinity]

function plural($num) {
    if ($num != 1)
        return "s";
}
 
function getRelativeTime($date) {
    $diff = time() - $date;
    if ($diff<60)
        return $diff . " second" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    $diff = round($diff/60);
    if ($diff<60)
        return $diff . " minute" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    $diff = round($diff/60);
    if ($diff<24)
        return $diff . " hour" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    $diff = round($diff/24);
    if ($diff<7)
        return $diff . " day" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    $diff = round($diff/7);
    if ($diff<4)
        return $diff . " week" . plural($diff) . " ago";
    return "on " . date("F j, Y", strtotime($date));
}

// Unix timestamp for today at 17:21:19, replace this with a timestamp for whenever you want
$stampystamp = 1295803279;

// Display the number of seconds/minutes/hours/days/weeks since the timestamp
echo getRelativeTime($stampystamp); 

No. You've just posted the code that I posted. Post the code that you are using to call the function.
It should look a bit like this:

echo getRelativeTime(1295803279); 

You've probably used a variable instead of that timestamp though, so post the code that you use to assign a value to the variable too.