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Social Networking Timestamp Operator
BLOG CATEGORY: PHP | Permalink | Posted on: August 23rd, 2011 |
More and more you see Websites adopting the use of "Standard Social Network Time" or "Less than a minute ago".
It is a lot easier to understand this type of timestamp lingo than check the date and time. It is displaying dynamic data, which makes it a lot more exciting than just having a static date.
I have written a really simple version of a timestamp operator function here:
function lingo_me_timestamp($timestamp){
$ago = time() - strtotime($timestamp);
if($ago < 60){
$output = "Less than a minute ago";
} else if($ago < 3600){
$output = "Less than an hour ago";
} else if($ago < 86400){
$output = "Today";
} else {
$output = "Posted on: " . date("F jS, Y", strtotime($timestamp));
}
return $output;
}
You can adjust times and messages. The more options you have in the function, the more dynamic your date fields end up being.
