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Takes a date and returns a string describing how long ago that date was. examples: 3 seconds ago, 5 days ago, 2 years ago, you get the idea :)

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  1. // convert a date into a string that tells how long ago that date was.... eg: 2 days ago, 3 minutes ago.
  2. function ago($d) {
  3. 	$c = getdate();
  4. 	$p = array('year', 'mon', 'mday', 'hours', 'minutes', 'seconds');
  5. 	$display = array('year', 'month', 'day', 'hour', 'minute', 'second');
  6. 	$factor = array(0, 12, 30, 24, 60, 60);
  7. 	$d = datetoarr($d);
  8. 	for ($w = 0; $w < 6; $w++) {
  9. 		if ($w > 0) {
  10. 			$c[$p[$w]] += $c[$p[$w-1]] * $factor[$w];
  11. 			$d[$p[$w]] += $d[$p[$w-1]] * $factor[$w];
  12. 		}
  13. 		if ($c[$p[$w]] - $d[$p[$w]] > 1) { 
  14. 			return ($c[$p[$w]] - $d[$p[$w]]).' '.$display[$w].'s ago';
  15. 		}
  16. 	}
  17. 	return '';
  18. }
  19.  
  20. // you can replace this if need be. This converts my dates returned from a mysql date string into 
  21. //   an array object similar to that returned by getdate().
  22. function datetoarr($d) {
  23. 	preg_match("/([0-9]{4})(\\-)([0-9]{2})(\\-)([0-9]{2}) ([0-9]{2})(\\:)([0-9]{2})(\\:)([0-9]{2})/", $d, $matches);
  24.     return array( 
  25. 		'seconds' => $matches[10], 
  26. 		'minutes' => $matches[8], 
  27. 		'hours' => $matches[6],  
  28. 		'mday' => $matches[5], 
  29. 		'mon' => $matches[3],  
  30. 		'year' => $matches[1], 
  31. 	);
  32. }

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