PHP How to find the time elapsed since a date time? [duplicate]

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Most of the answers seem focused around converting the date from a string to time. It seems you’re mostly thinking about getting the date into the ‘5 days ago’ format, etc.. right?

This is how I’d go about doing that:

$time = strtotime('2010-04-28 17:25:43');

echo 'event happened '.humanTiming($time).' ago';

function humanTiming ($time)
{

    $time = time() - $time; // to get the time since that moment
    $time = ($time<1)? 1 : $time;
    $tokens = array (
        31536000 => 'year',
        2592000 => 'month',
        604800 => 'week',
        86400 => 'day',
        3600 => 'hour',
        60 => 'minute',
        1 => 'second'
    );

    foreach ($tokens as $unit => $text) {
        if ($time < $unit) continue;
        $numberOfUnits = floor($time / $unit);
        return $numberOfUnits.' '.$text.(($numberOfUnits>1)?'s':'');
    }

}

I haven’t tested that, but it should work.

The result would look like

event happened 4 days ago

or 

event happened 1 minute ago

cheers

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