RelativeTime is a lightweight and easy to use library that helps you calculate the time difference between two dates and returns the result in words (like, 5 minutes ago or 5 minutes left). The library supports other languages as well like Spanish, German, Czech, French and Portuguese.

It uses the standard \DateTime() and \DateInterval() classes found in modern PHP versions. For more information, please read the Usage section of this README.

• PHP >= 5.3

If you're using Composer to manage dependencies, you can use this library by creating a composer.json file and adding this:

{
    "require": {
        "mpratt/relativetime": "~1.0"
    }
}

Save it and run composer.phar install

Download the latest release or clone this repository, place the Lib/RelativeTime directory somewhere in your project. Afterwards, you only need to include the included Autoload.php file.

    require '/path/to/RelativeTime/Autoload.php';
    $relativeTime = new \RelativeTime\RelativeTime();

Or if you already have PSR-0 compliant autoloader, you just need to register RelativeTime:

    $loader->registerNamespace('RelativeTime', 'path/to/RelativeTime');

Most of the times you are going to need the convert($fromDate, $toDate) method.

    $relativeTime = new \RelativeTime\RelativeTime();
    echo $relativeTime->convert('2010-09-05', '2010-03-30');
    // 5 months, 6 days ago

    $relativeTime = new \RelativeTime\RelativeTime();
    echo $relativeTime->convert('2012-03-05', '2013/02/05');
    // 11 months left

There are 2 other useful methods timeAgo($date) and timeLeft($date), that calculate the time since/until the current date/time.

    // Asumming Today is the 2013-09-23 17:23:47

    $relativeTime = new \RelativeTime\RelativeTime();
    echo $relativeTime->timeAgo('2012-08-29 06:00');
    // 1 year, 25 days, 16 hours, 23 minutes, 13 seconds ago

    $relativeTime = new \RelativeTime\RelativeTime();
    echo $relativeTime->timeLeft('2013-10-31 01:00:05');
    // 1 month, 7 days, 2 hours, 36 minutes, 52 seconds left

The main object accepts an array with configuration directives

    $config = array(
        'language' => '\RelativeTime\Languages\English',
        'separator' => ', ',
        'suffix' => true,
        'truncate' => 0,
    );

    $relativeTime = new \RelativeTime\RelativeTime($config);

MIT For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE file.

Hi! I'm Michael Pratt and I'm from Colombia! My Personal Website is in Spanish.