x days, y hours and z minutes ago...

Posted by cburschka on January 15, 2007 at 7:43am

This appears to be one of those days when I'm completely blind when it comes to searching the API.

Drupal appears to have a library function that can convert a unix timestamp to this relative statement of "x days ago" or "has been a member for x weeks". I assume that this can be used by modules as well.

What's the name of this function?

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Here's a snippet I copied

Posted by mrb on January 15, 2007 at 8:52am

Here's a snippet I copied from somewhere that displays the 'time ago' in the 'What's new' block on the left of the www.batgung.com site, and hopefully will help you:

echo( t('(%time ago)', array('%time' => format_interval(time() - $node->created,1))));

Thanks

Posted by cburschka on January 15, 2007 at 4:59pm

That was exactly what I needed!

I especially like the part that the granularity can be adjusted through the second parameter. Now the only thing that could make it better would be to set a threshold unit (I'd rather have it as "30 days" instead of "4 weeks and 30 days")...

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