Comments on: relative time in cakephp

By: Miles Johnson

Miles Johnson — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:52:44 +0000

Like robert said, you could use $time->timeAgoInWords() or $time->relativeTime(), using the Time helper. But nice code none the less.

By: Funky Dude

Funky Dude — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:11:18 +0000

i guess you are right. this is not the proper way of doing things in cake.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:03:39 +0000

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.

By: Funky Dude

Funky Dude — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:36:38 +0000

thanks. didnt know that helper. Wait, are you saying i am not good enough or something?

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:30:03 +0000

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.