Code to display the latest post publication time in "time ago"

  • Resolved Glisse

    (@glisse)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hello..ive been trying and failing for 2 days to get a code working and as a last resort i ask for your help.. usually i like to solve my own problems but this is beyond me because its a two step one and also i`m not a php literate.

    What i want: in a sidebar widget to have something like “latest post: 2 minutes ago”.. there are other stats aswell in the same widget like the total posts, but those i managed to make them work..

    so the first step is to get the latest post publication time and the second is to convert it in time ago with that human_diff function.. i just could not blend these two together.. any help much appreciated

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  • vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    I think this will do what you want (assuming that $post->post_date is available):

    $now = date_i18n('Y-m-d H:i:s');
$interval = date_diff(date_create($now),date_create($post->post_date));
$msg = '';
$sep = '';
if($interval->days > 0) { $msg .= "$interval->days days"; $sep = ', ';}
if($interval->h > 0) { $msg .= "$sep$interval->h Hours"; $sep = ', ';}
if($interval->i > 0) { $msg .= "$sep$interval->i Minutes"; $sep = ', ';}
if($interval->s > 0) { $msg .= "$sep$interval->s Seconds"; $sep = ', ';}
echo "<p>latest post $msg ago</p>";
    Thread Starter Glisse

    (@glisse)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Thank you so much for your reply.. at first i could not use your code at all, because my host has php 5.2 installed which does not know date_diff function.. but I installed php 5.3 on the local host, but the output was “latest post ago”, i guess the $post->post_date was the probelm ..

    but working upon your code i manged to get a working one in the end

    $post= get_lastpostdate('blog');
$convertunix= strtotime($post);
$now = date_i18n('U');
$diff = human_time_diff($convertunix, $now);
echo "<p>latest post $diff ago</p>";

    thanks for your help again !

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