Make-Nice-Time

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Class PHP make a nice time from timstamp example output : 1 day ago, 2 days ago, 1 month ago, 2 months ago …

Requirements

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• PHP 5.0.3 or superior

Ready Languages

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• English
• Español (Spanish)
• Deutsch (German) - Beta
• Nederlands (Dutch) - Beta
• Français (French)
• Italiano (Italian)
• Japonese (日本の) - Beta
• Português (Portuguese)
• Русский (Russian) - Beta
• Suomi (Finnish) - Beta
• ελληνικά (Greek) - Beta

Key Features

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• It's easy to use.
• Multiple languages.
• Parameter limit in days (used to reverse the nice datetime to a specific format).
• Automatic detect the language.

Installation / Usage

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1. Download the composer.phar executable or use the installer.

   $ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

2. Create a composer.json defining your dependencies. Note that this example is a short version for applications that are not meant to be published as packages themselves. To create libraries/packages please read the documentation.

   {
       "repositories": [
           {"type": "git", "url": "https://github.com/offboard/Make-Nice-Time"}
       ], 
       "require": {  
           "offboard/Make-Nice-Time": "dev-master"
       }
   }

3. Run Composer: php composer.phar install

4. Browse for more packages on Packagist.

Updating Composer

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Running php composer.phar self-update or equivalent will update a phar install with the latest version.

Installation from Source

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1. Run git clone https://github.com/offboard/Make-Nice-Time.git /var/www/your-project/plugins/
2. Include the class in your project file: include('plugins/NiceDate.php');

If you already use autoload, simply causes your autoload load the libs folder or any other that is installed clase Make Nice Time

Examples

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Quick Install

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<?php
// Loading class required
require_once('plugins/NiceDate.php');

Simple Example

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<?php
// Loading all required classes
require_once('plugins/NiceDate.php');

$now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('-2 week'));
// show result
echo makeNiceTime::MakeNew($now); // Example output in English : 2 weeks ago
?>

Example Database

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<?php
// Loading all required classes
require_once('plugins/NiceDate.php');
require_once('config.inc.php'); // Configuration file of your database

//create connection
$mysqli = new mysqli(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASS, DB_NAME);
$query = mysqli_query($mysqli, "SELECT * FROM menu");
$result = mysqli_fetch_array($query);

// listing data result
foreach ($result as $value) {
  // create nice date time
  $dat = makeNiceTime::MakeNew($value['data']);
  // show result
  echo $value['data'] . "<br>" . $dat . "<hr>";
}

?>

Example Limit

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<?php
// Loading all required classes
require_once('plugins/NiceDate.php');

// Our date will be formatted  is current date + 12 weeks
$now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('+12 week'));

// limit date is current date + 5 week, in that case is smaller than our data
$limit = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('+5 week'));

// output format optional, Standard timestamp format Y-m-d H:i:s
$output = 'M d Y'; // example May 2 2014
// show result
echo makeNiceTime::MakeNew($now, $limit, $output);
?>

Automatic Choose the Language

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<?php
// Loading all required classes
require_once('plugins/NiceDate.php');

$now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('-2 week'));
// defines language is chosen based on browser language
makeNiceTime::$DefaultLanguage = 'auto';
// show result
echo makeNiceTime::MakeNew($now);
?>

Example Choose Language

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<?php
// Loading all required classes
require_once('plugins/NiceDate.php');

$now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('-2 week'));
// defines Portuguese language as default, even being in another language standard.
makeNiceTime::$DefaultLanguage = 'pt-br';
// show result
echo makeNiceTime::MakeNew($now); // Exemplo de saída : Há 2 semanas atrás

?>

Contribute

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Please commit only in develop branch. The master branch will always contain the stable version.

Current and further development

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See active issues and requested features here: https://github.com/offboard/Make-Nice-Time/issues?state=open

License

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Licensed under MIT. Totally free for private or commercial projects.