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I want to show last seen in user's profile in my php page. I am storing user's logout time in database as 2014-01-06 15:25:08 (store in $last_log) with DATETIME datatype. Now i want to display last seen x mins ago. And it's auto update in x day ago, x month ago.
I want same as here when we add comment & its time ".......ago" updates.
How can i display this.

Answer 1

// intval() - http://php.net/manual/en/function.intval.php
$seconds_ago = (time() - strtotime('2014-01-06 15:25:08'));
if ($seconds_ago >= 31536000) {
echo "Seen " . intval($seconds_ago / 31536000) . " years ago";
} elseif ($seconds_ago >= 2419200) {
echo "Seen " . intval($seconds_ago / 2419200) . " months ago";
} elseif ($seconds_ago >= 86400) {
echo "Seen " . intval($seconds_ago / 86400) . " days ago";
} elseif ($seconds_ago >= 3600) {
echo "Seen " . intval($seconds_ago / 3600) . " hours ago";
} elseif ($seconds_ago >= 60) {
echo "Seen " . intval($seconds_ago / 60) . " minutes ago";
} else {
echo "Seen less than a minute ago";
}

Answer 2

Try this function
function get_timeago( $ptime )
{
$etime = time() - $ptime;
if( $etime < 1 )
{
return 'less than '.$etime.' second ago';
}
$a = array( 12 * 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 => 'year',
30 * 24 * 60 * 60 => 'month',
24 * 60 * 60 => 'day',
60 * 60 => 'hour',
60 => 'minute',
1 => 'second'
);
foreach( $a as $secs => $str )
{
$d = $etime / $secs;
if( $d >= 1 )
{
$r = round( $d );
return 'about ' . $r . ' ' . $str . ( $r > 1 ? 's' : '' ) . ' ago';
}
}
}
Usage :
$timestamp = strtotime("2014-11-14 17:15:59");
echo get_timeago( $timestamp );

Answer 3

try something like this:
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2014-01-06 15:25:08');
$datetime2 = new DateTime();
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%a days')."<br>";
echo $interval->m." Months";
for more read this:http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.diff.php

Answer 4

try this
$date1 = strtotime('2014-12-06 15:25:08');
$date2 = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));
$seconds_diff = $date2 - $date1;
echo round(abs($seconds_diff) / 60,2). " mins ago";

Answer 5

Use the date_diff function.
See http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-diff.php
"Powerful Function to get two date difference."
In short:
// $datetime1 and $datetime2 are UNIX timestamps.
$interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2);
echo $interval->format($differenceFormat);