How to show time ago script like facebook in PHP

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• August 1, 2023

I am working on a project where I need to show time ago script like facebook using PHP. How do I implement time ago script on my project using PHP.

Solution

<?php  
 date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Calcutta');  
 echo facebook_time_ago('2023-08-01 17:00:00');  

 function facebook_time_ago($timestamp)  
 {  
      $time_ago = strtotime($timestamp);  
	 
      $current_time = time();
 
      $time_difference = $current_time - $time_ago;  
	
      $seconds = $time_difference;  
	 
      $minutes = round($seconds / 60 ); 	  // value 60 is seconds  
	  
      $hours = round($seconds / 3600);   	  //value 3600 is 60 minutes * 60 

      $days = round($seconds / 86400);        //86400 = 24 * 60 * 60;  

      $weeks = round($seconds / 604800);      // 7 * 24 * 60 * 60;  
	  
      $months = round($seconds / 2629440);
      //((365+365+365+365+366)/5/12) * 24 * 60 * 60  
	  
      $years = round($seconds / 31553280);
      //(365+365+365+365+366)/5 * 24 * 60 * 60  
	  
      if($seconds <= 60)  
      {  
        return "Just Now";  
      }  
      else if($minutes <=60)  
      {  
        if($minutes==1)  
        {  
          return "one minute ago";  
        }  
        else  
        {  
          return "$minutes minutes ago";  
        }  
      }  
      else if($hours <=24)  
      {  
        if($hours==1)  
        {  
          return "an hour ago";  
        }  
        else  
        {  
          return "$hours hrs ago";  
        }  
      }  
      else if($days <= 7)  
      {  
        if($days==1)  
        {  
          return "Yesterday";  
        }  
        else  
        {  
          return "$days days ago";  
        }  
      }  
      else if($weeks <= 4.3) //4.3 == 52/12  
      {  
        if($weeks==1)  
        {  
          return "a week ago";  
        }  
        else  
        {  
          return "$weeks weeks ago";  
        }  
      }  
      else if($months <=12)  
      {  
        if($months==1)  
        {  
          return "a month ago";  
        }  
        else  
        {  
          return "$months months ago";  
        }  
      }  
      else  
      {  
        if($years==1)  
        {  
          return "one year ago";  
        }  
        else  
        {  
          return "$years years ago";  
        }  
      }  
 }  
 ?>  

Output

57 minutes ago