show the message time in the inbox php

Question

Hi i am doing internal mail service application ,

i have the field called datetime in my table,

i want to show the mail datetim in the inbox view somthing like gmail inbox,

i want to show if the mail came just 10 min aga means , i want to show 10min ago,

if mail came around 2 days back means i want to show the DATE-Time ,

Thing keep in mind i maintain the DATETIME datatyoe ,

Thanks Bharanikumar

This is snippet i have...

list($date, $time) = explode(' ', $session_time);

list($year, $month, $day) = explode('-', $date);

list($hour, $minute, $second) = explode(':', $time);

$session_time = mktime($hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year);

$time_difference = time() - $session_time ;

echo $seconds = $time_difference ;

$minutes = round($time_difference / 60 );

$hours = round($time_difference / 3600 );

$days = round($time_difference / 86400 );

$weeks = round($time_difference / 604800 );

$months = round($time_difference / 2419200 );

$years = round($time_difference / 29030400 );

if($days>2){

echo date("d-m-Y G:i",$session_time);

}else

// Seconds

if($seconds <= 60)

{

echo "test$seconds seconds ago";

}

//Minutes

else if($minutes <=60)

{

if($minutes==1)

{

echo "1 minute ago";

}

else

{

echo "$minutes minutes ago";

}

}

//Hours

else if($hours <=24)

{

if($hours==1)

{

echo "1 hour ago";

}

else

{

echo "$hours hours ago";

}

}

Answer 1

What you want it what people call Pretty Date. Here is the basic algorithm JavaScript. You should be able to easily port it to PHP.