Convert time in mysql with php - php

Question

Here is how the time shows in the database right now:
2016-05-07 21:18:21
Right now, this is how it does to convert it:
function time_elapsed_string($datetime) {
$now = new DateTime;
$ago = new DateTime($datetime);
$diff = $now->diff($ago);
$diff->w = floor($diff->d / 7);
$diff->d -= $diff->w * 7;
$string = array(
'y' => 'year',
'm' => 'month',
'w' => 'week',
'd' => 'day',
'h' => 'hour',
'i' => 'minute',
's' => 'second',
);
foreach ($string as $k => &$v) {
if ($diff->$k) {
$v = $diff->$k . ' ' . $v . ($diff->$k > 1 ? 's' : '');
} else {
unset($string[$k]);
}
}
$string = array_slice($string, 0, 1);
return $string ? implode(', ', $string) . ' ago' : 'just now';
}
when I do this it converts everything. BUT i want it to only show however many seconds, however many minutes, however many hours and if it's 24 hours, then it's 1 day, and 1 day. everything else I want it to show in this format: F j, Y g:ia

Answer 1

/**
* Format a unix timestamp in a 'time ago' format,
* e.g. 15 minutes ago or 7 days ago.
*
* #param integer $time
* #return string
*/
function ago($time)
{
$config = array(
array('second', 'seconds'),
array('minute', 'minutes'),
array('hour', 'hours'),
array('day', 'days'),
array('week', 'weeks'),
array('month', 'months'),
array('year', 'years'),
array('decade', 'decades'),
);
list($periods, $lengths, $now) = array($config, [60, 60, 24, 7, 4.35, 12, 10], time());
$difference = $now - $time;
for ($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j] and $j < count($lengths) - 1; $j++)
{
$difference /= $lengths[$j];
}
$difference = round($difference);
$period = $difference == 1 ? $periods[$j][0] : $periods[$j][1];
if ($difference == 0)
{
return 'Just now';
}
return "${difference} ${period} ago";
}

Answer 2

$old_date = "2016-05-07 21:18:21";
$date311 = date('d-m-Y H:i:s', strtotime($old_date));
$date31 = date_create($date311);
//creating a date object
date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Calcutta");
$date411 = date('d-m-Y H:i:s');
$date41 = date_create($date411);
//calculating the difference between dates
//the dates must be provided to the function as date objects that's why we were setting them
//as date objects and not just as strings
//date_diff returns an date object wich can be accessed as seen below
$diff341 = date_diff($date41, $date31);
//accesing days
$days1 = $diff341->d;
//accesing months
$months1 = $diff341->m;
//accesing years
$years1 = $diff341->y;
//accesing hours
$hours1=$diff341->h;
//accesing minutes
$minutes1=$diff341->i;
//accesing seconds
$seconds1=$diff341->s;
echo '<center>';
echo '<br /><div style="background-color:green;color:#fff;padding:10px;width:600px;font-size:16px">
<b>The difference between '.$date311.' and '.$date411.'
<br />is: ' . $years1 . ' year(s), ' . $months1 . ' month(s), '. $days1 . ' day(s), '.$hours1.' hour(s),
'.$minutes1.' minute(s), '.$seconds1.' second(s) </b>
</div><br />';
echo '</center>';
Result :-