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jaytee on 02/06/08


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Relative Time

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Takes a date and returns the relative time (e.g. "10 minutes ago", "3 weeks ago", etc.) Past four weeks, it just returns the date in the form "January 1, 2008".

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  1. function plural($num) {
  2. 	if ($num != 1)
  3. 		return "s";
  4. }
  5.  
  6. function getRelativeTime($date) {
  7. 	$diff = time() - strtotime($date);
  8. 	if ($diff<60)
  9. 		return $diff . " second" . plural($diff) . " ago";
  10. 	$diff = round($diff/60);
  11. 	if ($diff<60)
  12. 		return $diff . " minute" . plural($diff) . " ago";
  13. 	$diff = round($diff/60);
  14. 	if ($diff<24)
  15. 		return $diff . " hour" . plural($diff) . " ago";
  16. 	$diff = round($diff/24);
  17. 	if ($diff<7)
  18. 		return $diff . " day" . plural($diff) . " ago";
  19. 	$diff = round($diff/7);
  20. 	if ($diff<4)
  21. 		return $diff . " week" . plural($diff) . " ago";
  22. 	return "on " . date("F j, Y", strtotime($date));
  23. }

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