salernolabs/relative-time

Library for building relative time strings in PHP.

Usage

Installation

First include this project with composer

composer require salernolabs/relative-time

Formatting Time

Then run the formatter on a DateTime object.

$formatter = new \SalernoLabs\RelativeTime\Formatter();
$relativeTime = $formatter->getRelativeTime(new \DateTime('-47 minutes'));
echo $relativeTime;

This would output '47 minutes ago'. The formatter will also go forward as well so if you put in '+47 minutes' it will say "47 mintues from now".

Examples of Time Reformatting

This library will also give short-hand conversational outputs for some values. For example:

Time Modification	Output
-5 minutes	just now
+5 minutes	momentarily
-1 minute	about a minute ago
+1 minute	about a minute from now
-1 hour	about an hour ago
+1 hour	about an hour from now
-1 day	yesterday
+1 day	tomorrow

And actual numbers for other times, for example:

Time Modification	Output
-45 seconds	45 seconds ago
-45 minutes	45 minutes ago
-7 hours	7 hours ago
-3 years	3 years ago

HTML5 Tags

You can easily wrap the output in an html5 time tag by using the getRelativeTimeTag function.

$formatter = new \SalernoLabs\RelativeTime\Formatter();
$relativeTime = $formatter->getRelativeTimeTag(new \DateTime('-47 minutes'));
echo $relativeTime;

This would output:

<time title="April 14th, 2017 - 4:14PM EDT">47 minutes ago</time>

Relative Time Clock

The relative time clock can give you a textual representation of a time of day.

$clock = new \SalernoLabs\RelativeTime\Clock();

$time = $clock
    ->setTime(new \DateTime('7:47'))
    ->getTime();

echo $time; // a quarter to eight o'clock

Examples of Relative Clock Output

Input Time	Output
1:00	one o'clock
5:03	five o'clock,
2:07	almost ten after two o'clock,
3:10	ten after three o'clock
4:15	quarter after four o'clock
6:22	almost half past six o'clock
7:32	half past seven o'clock
8:44	almost a quarter to nine o'clock
9:45	a quarter to ten o'clock
11:55	almost twelve o'clock
12:00	twelve o'clock,
12:59	almost one o'clock
12:45	a quarter to one o'clock
12:43	almost a quarter to one o'clock