# Add time ago functionality to your project
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# Getting started
The package is availabe here on Github and on Packagist
* https://github.com/jimmiw/php-time-ago
* https://packagist.org/packages/jimmiw/php-time-ago
## Installing
Using composer you can just do the following
```
composer require jimmiw/php-time-ago
```
## Using the component
There are two ways of getting the time ago in words.
By passing `DateTime` objects:
```
$timeAgo = new Westsworld\TimeAgo();
echo $timeAgo->inWords(new DateTime("2010-01-10 23:05:00"));
```
By passing strings:
```
$timeAgo = new Westsworld\TimeAgo();
echo $timeAgo->inWordsFromStrings("2010/1/10 23:05:00");
```
Both methods give the same answer, and use the same internal logic.
## Do you want the actual years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds difference?
Good news for you then!
I've implemented a nice little function that does just that for you. Simply do the
following:
```
$timeAgo = new Westsworld\TimeAgo();
// NOTE: this is actually deprecated, since DateTime does the same. Still works though :)
$dateDifferenceArray = $timeAgo->dateDifference("2017-03-02 07:53:00", "2017-03-02 07:53:01");
```
This will return an array with the following data:
```
[
'years' => 0
'months' => 0
'days' => 0
'hours' => 0
'minutes' => 0
'seconds' => 1
]
```
# How to determine, what "ago" is
```
0 <-> 29 secs # => less than a minute
30 secs <-> 1 min, 29 secs # => 1 minute
1 min, 30 secs <-> 44 mins, 29 secs # => [2..44] minutes
44 mins, 30 secs <-> 89 mins, 29 secs # => about 1 hour
89 mins, 29 secs <-> 23 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs # => about [2..24] hours
23 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs <-> 47 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs # => 1 day
47 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs <-> 29 days, 23 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs # => [2..29] days
29 days, 23 hrs, 59 mins, 30 secs <-> 59 days, 23 hrs, 59 mins, 29 secs # => about 1 month
59 days, 23 hrs, 59 mins, 30 secs <-> 1 yr minus 1 sec # => [2..12] months
1 yr <-> 2 yrs minus 1 secs # => about 1 year
2 yrs <-> max time or date # => over [2..X] years
```
# Changes since last version
Lots have changed since the last version. The WWDateTime class is no longer supported.
I have implemented a new class which takes a time string as parameter (and a
timezone if needed), and calculates the time between them.
By request from "lsolesen" (a guy from here on github) I did removed the whole
DateTime dependence thingy.
# About
Inspired by the comments at:
http://dk.php.net/time
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M001695
You should really look in to the Carbon project, it looks very nice and gives the same functionality and a lot more.
This class is here to give you the same functionality that DateTime::diff will give you.
# Translations added
*Version 0.4.x was the big translations release.*
You can now translate the texts returned using the $timeAgo->inWords() or timeAgoInWords() methods.
The translation is simply a language code string added to the end of the class init or timeAgoInWords() method.
Examples using the Danish translations:
```
$myLang = new \Westsworld\TimeAgo\Translations\Da();
$timeAgo = new Westsworld\TimeAgo($myLang); // default language is en (english)
echo $timeAgo->inWords("2010/1/10 23:05:00");
```
# Available translation languages
You can view the file of available list inside /src/Westsworld/TimeAgo/Translations/ folder.
# Changelog
For a full list of changes, please see Changelog.md
# Backers
Support us with a monthly donation and help us continue our activities. [[Become a backer](https://opencollective.com/php-time-ago#backer)]
# Sponsors
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# MIT License
Copyright © 2014 Jimmi Westerberg (http://westsworld.dk)
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