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function plural($num) {
if ($num != 1)
return "s";
}
function getRelativeTime($date) {
$diff = time() - strtotime($date);
if ($diff<60)
return $diff . " second" . plural($diff) . " ago";
$diff = round($diff/60);
if ($diff<60)
return $diff . " minute" . plural($diff) . " ago";
$diff = round($diff/60);
if ($diff<24)
return $diff . " hour" . plural($diff) . " ago";
$diff = round($diff/24);
if ($diff<7)
return $diff . " day" . plural($diff) . " ago";
$diff = round($diff/7);
if ($diff<4)
return $diff . " week" . plural($diff) . " ago";
return "on " . date("F j, Y", strtotime($date));
}<span>
If you want to use this in your view files, You need a create a file call app.php in view folder.
In your app_controller.php declare a variable
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var $view = "App";
your app.php looks something like this
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class AppView extends View{
function convertMysqlDate($dateString)
{
return date('M d Y h:s A',strtotime($dateString));
}
function plural($num) {
if ($num != 1)
return "s";
}
function getRelativeTime($date) {
$diff = time() - strtotime($date);
if ($diff<60)
return $diff . " second" . $this->plural($diff) . " ago";
$diff = round($diff/60);
if ($diff<60)
return $diff . " minute" . $this->plural($diff) . " ago";
$diff = round($diff/60);
if ($diff<24)
return $diff . " hour" . $this->plural($diff) . " ago";
$diff = round($diff/24);
if ($diff<7)
return $diff . " day" . $this->plural($diff) . " ago";
$diff = round($diff/7);
if ($diff<4)
return $diff . " week" . $this->plural($diff) . " ago";
return "on " . date("F j, Y", strtotime($date));
}
}
5 Comments
Or you could pass this ineffective and obscure implementation and just use TimeHelper::timeAgoInWords()
It’s great that you’re being productive with CakePHP, but I don’t understand why you’re in the Planet CakePHP aggregator.
thanks. didnt know that helper. Wait, are you saying i am not good enough or something?
I’m not judging worth or merit, and I wasn’t trying to be insulting.
Speaking from a Cakish stance however, this code should be neatened, refactored and put into a Helper. If it does what you want, then job well done, but cutting and pasting some functions into a class named AppView doesn’t make this a CakePHP post.
That these methods *should *be in a Helper makes this a “learning about Cake” blog, and not something I would expect to be aggregated into an almost-official feed.
http://book.cakephp.org/ is an invaluable resource, and one I wish had been around when I started using Cake. It also documents TimeHelper and other useful Helpers like TextHelper and Inflector.
Again: I’m not flaming or trolling, just pointing out what I see.
i guess you are right. this is not the proper way of doing things in cake.
Like robert said, you could use $time->timeAgoInWords() or $time->relativeTime(), using the Time helper. But nice code none the less.