Facebook Style time ago function using PHP

In this tutorial you’ll learn How to get Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and so many social media platform style time ago function in PHP. Friends When you use Facebook and update a status on your wall or upload a photo to your Facebook wall, after uploading, the time will be shown as Now or you can also see the time of the previous post, it is the week, month , year or day. In this tutorial we will learn how to save this time using the PHP programming language.

This is a very simple PHP script to get output like Facebook style some time ago. In this function we can calculate the time based on the time zone of a specific country.

If you have a previous date and time, this function will count the time between the current date and time and the previous date using simple PHP logic.

Time Ago Function in PHP

function.php

<?php

date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Calcutta");   //India time (GMT+5:30) 

function facebookTimeAgo($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 sec
    $days       = round($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";
        }
    }
}
?>

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