I'm confused... That's exactly how I've got it coded on my page.
E.g.
I take it I'm doing something wrong..? Sorry like I said earlier my php knowledge is very limited!PHP Code:<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<?php
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);
?>
</body>
</html>
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20-02-2011, 01:32 AM #21
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Hmm I'm stumped then. I tested the code when I first posted it, it worked fine, but I just copied and pasted the exact same code and it's displaying the epoch thing. I wrongly assumed you were just making a stupid mistake at first, but I'm having the same problem.
Originally Posted by Flumples
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20-02-2011, 09:28 AM #23
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I tried it yesterday as well and had the same problem. My PHP knowledge isn't much though
. When I changed the timestamp (I change it too 2/3 days ago) it worked fine.
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strtotime is used to "Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp" - The value that was being passed in was the timestampPHP Code:
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
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", $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);
?>
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20-02-2011, 03:24 PM #25
Ooo thats sorted it, thanks! It's still not what I was after though. Originally Posted by Johno
strtotime is used to "Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp" - The value that was being passed in was the timestampPHP Code:
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
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", $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);
?>
I needed a counter that displayed the number of days since a certain date, not weeks or anything like that, just days. So a counter that increases by 1 each day. Basically it's to go on a news articles page thats styled to look like a newspaper and has 'Issue #6' or whatever in the top corner and I needed that issue number to go up by 1 each day just to make it look a bit more realistic.
I managed to sort it though, no idea how and this is probably really messy coding, but it seems to work
PHP Code:<?php
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 $diff . "" . "";
return "on " . date("F j, Y", strtotime($date));
}
// Unix timestamp
$stampystamp = 1295803279;
// Display the number of seconds/minutes/hours/days/weeks since the timestamp
echo
?>
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Just days you sayyy?
Hope that helps.PHP Code:<?php
/**
* Function that you can c/p
**/
function daysSince( $date )
{
$from = strtotime( $date );
$to = time();
$time = $to - $from;
return round( ( ( ( $time / 60 ) / 60 ) / 24 ), 0);
}
/**
* Usage - should output 8 from 21st :)
**/
echo daysSince( '8 February 2011' );
?>
P.S You can tell when I'm stressed and up late when I post on HxF ^_^ and HAIII TRINITYLast edited by Source; 21-02-2011 at 03:14 AM.
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HAIII MATT Originally Posted by Source
I don't want to get shouted at for making a 'pointless' post, so erm... that's some good code that. Flumples, you should totally use it.
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We must catchup soon my dear.
If anyone is interested how the days are worked out, then yeah. A timestamp is the seconds that have passed since said 1970 date. Take the timestamp of today, minus the timestamp of the date you want to work out how many days have passed will leave you with how many seconds have passed from input date, to this second. From there it's as simple as dividing by 60 for minutes, dividing by 60 again for hours and lastly dividing by 24 to leave us with days.
Fun.
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Mattt! I love you, k thx.
Anyways I don't care about a pointless post, so this is pointless.
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Always knew it ^_^ hahaha, how are you Mr Mingle? Mingle Graphics going well? Originally Posted by Dentafrice
Also for the sake of using less code, you could use something like:
PHP Code:<?php
/**
* Function that you can c/p
**/
function daysSince( $date )
{
return round( ( ( ( time() - strtotime( $date ) / 60 ) / 60 ) / 24 ), 0 );
}
/**
* Usage - should output 8 from 21st :)
**/
echo daysSince( '8 February 2011' );
?>
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