"Seconds ago" Issue again

[Monkuar]

function  timeAgo2($timestamp, $granularity=3, $format='d:H:i:s'){
        $difference = $timestamp;
        if($difference < 0) return '0 seconds ago';
        elseif($difference < 31570560){
                   $periods = array('year' => 31570560, 'month' => 2630880, 'week' => 604800,'day' => 86400,'hours' => 3600,'min' => 60,'seconds' => 1);
                $output = '';
                foreach($periods as $key => $value){
                        if($difference >= $value){
                                $time = round($difference / $value);
                                $difference %= $value;
                                $output .= ($output ? ' ' : '').$time.' ';
                                $output .= (($time > 1 && $key == 'day') ? $key.'s' : $key);
                                $granularity--;
                        }
                        if($granularity == 0) break;
                }
                return ($output ? $output : '').'';
        }
        else return date($format, $timestamp);
}

 

 

Okay,  I have this:

 

$save['removal'] = time() + (1209600);

 

I am adding 2weeks + time() to my $save['removal'] variable.

 

 

Then  I will wrap my function timeAgo2 around my $save['removal'], and it shows:

 

"19:15:50:20"  but if I do

 

$save['removal'] = time() + (300);

 

Then it works, and shows "5minutes ago/etc"

 

Why doesn't it work when  I try to add 2weeks to my $save['removal'] variable?

 

It seems it reads my $format if I try to set my time higher then 5minutes.... no idea...?

[Pikachu2000]

What is the value echoed by $save['removal']? I'll bet it makes this evaluate to FALSE: elseif($difference < 31570560){

[Monkuar]

What is the value echoed by $save['removal']? I'll bet it makes this evaluate to FALSE: elseif($difference < 31570560){

 

if I do:

 

$save['removal'] = time() + (3000);

echo $save['removal'];

exit;

 

It is

 

1324314139

 

 

 

 

When I pull it from the db it is:

 

"1355847038"

[Monkuar]

Ok, scratch that code, I was not explaining myself better.

 

Here is the problem.

 

 

 

I use:

 

$save['removal'] = time() + (3600);

 

 

 

Then when I try to echo my $save['removal'] out from my db, using this function:

 

function timeAgo($tm,$rcs = 1) {
    $cur_tm = time(); $dif = $cur_tm-$tm;
    $pds = array('second','minute','hour','day','week','month','year','decade');
    $lngh = array(1,60,3600,86400,604800,2630880,31570560,315705600);
    for($v = sizeof($lngh)-1; ($v >= 0)&&(($no = $dif/$lngh[$v])<=1); $v--); if($v < 0) $v = 0; $_tm = $cur_tm-($dif%$lngh[$v]);

    $no = floor($no); if($no <> 1) $pds[$v] .='s'; $x=sprintf("%d %s ",$no,$pds[$v]);
    if(($rcs > 0)&&($v >= 1)&&(($cur_tm-$_tm) > 0)) $x .= $this->timeAgo($_tm, --$rcs);
    return $x;
}

 

I use this to echo it out:

 

timeAgo($r['removal'],2);

 

 

 

Now this is the problem.. it shows:

 

 

 

instead of regular "XXX Minutes/seconds ago"

 

 

[Psycho]

Well, you say that it is working corectly when you use

$save['removal'] = time() + (300);

 

But I find that hard to believe. because of this line

elseif($difference < 31570560)

 

The current timestamp (for me) is 1324312172 which is greater than that hard-coded value in that condition. So ALL results are defaulting the the else statement of

 else return date($format, $timestamp);

 

What is the purpose of '31570560'?

 

EDIT: Als,o you are passing a timestamp to the function. Then you are using that value as $difference. A difference requires two values to be calculated. It doesn't make sense why the timestamp would be a difference, unless you were calculating the difference from January 1 1970 (which is what the timestamp is)

[Pikachu2000]

Exactly. Just the value of time() will exceed that value, and unless the date being compared is in 1970, the elseif() will return FALSE. Why don't you explain what you're trying to accomplish instead of what you're trying to get the code to do.

[Monkuar]

Exactly. Just the value of time() will exceed that value, and unless the date being compared is in 1970, the elseif() will return FALSE. Why don't you explain what you're trying to accomplish instead of what you're trying to get the code to do.

 

Sorry, for not explaining so much, let me try again

 

When a user on my forum system get's a Warn, I want them to wait atleast 2weeks before they can click on my "request warn removal" Link.

 

so I am pretty much just trying to add 2 weeks to the unixtimestamp, and echo it out as "14 Days Left" right after they get warned, then the next day, It will show "13 Days left"/etc, that's is what I am trying to get it show in my "$save['removal']" value, which is showing the above error, I posted.

 

I used the 31570560 cuz that's how many seconds are in a year, thought I needed that on that array.  I scratched that old code, see my post above  :'(

[Psycho]

OK, when a user gets a warning you should update the database to time() + 2 weeks. Then when you want to calculate the time left you should use the database value - time(). You could just update your function to do that calculation for you.

[Psycho]

function  timeUntil($endTime, $granularity=3, $format='d:H:i:s')
{
    $difference = $endTime - time();
    if($difference < 0) return '0 seconds ago';
    elseif($difference < 200630560)
    {
        $periods = array('year' => 31570560, 'month' => 2630880, 'week' => 604800,'day' => 86400,'hours' => 3600, 'min' => 60, 'seconds' => 1);
        $output = '';
        foreach($periods as $key => $value)
        {
            if($difference >= $value)
            {
                $time = round($difference / $value);
                $difference %= $value;
                $output .= ($output ? ' ' : '').$time.' ';
                $output .= (($time > 1 && $key == 'day') ? $key.'s' : $key);
                $granularity--;
            }
            if($granularity == 0) break;
        }
        return ($output ? $output : '').'';
    }
    else return date($format, $timestamp);
}

echo timeUntil(time()+9);        // 9 seconds
echo timeUntil(time()+99);       // 2 min 39 seconds
echo timeUntil(time()+9999);     // 3 hours 47 min 39 seconds
echo timeUntil(time()+99999);    // 1 day 4 hours 47 min
echo timeUntil(time()+999999);   // 2 week 5 days 14 hours
echo timeUntil(time()+9999999);  // 4 month 3 week 3 days
echo timeUntil(time()+99999999); // 3 year 2 month 7 hours

[Monkuar]

function  timeUntil($endTime, $granularity=3, $format='d:H:i:s')
{
    $difference = $endTime - time();
    if($difference < 0) return '0 seconds ago';
    elseif($difference < 200630560)
    {
        $periods = array('year' => 31570560, 'month' => 2630880, 'week' => 604800,'day' => 86400,'hours' => 3600, 'min' => 60, 'seconds' => 1);
        $output = '';
        foreach($periods as $key => $value)
        {
            if($difference >= $value)
            {
                $time = round($difference / $value);
                $difference %= $value;
                $output .= ($output ? ' ' : '').$time.' ';
                $output .= (($time > 1 && $key == 'day') ? $key.'s' : $key);
                $granularity--;
            }
            if($granularity == 0) break;
        }
        return ($output ? $output : '').'';
    }
    else return date($format, $timestamp);
}

echo timeUntil(time()+9);        // 9 seconds
echo timeUntil(time()+99);       // 2 min 39 seconds
echo timeUntil(time()+9999);     // 3 hours 47 min 39 seconds
echo timeUntil(time()+99999);    // 1 day 4 hours 47 min
echo timeUntil(time()+999999);   // 2 week 5 days 14 hours
echo timeUntil(time()+9999999);  // 4 month 3 week 3 days
echo timeUntil(time()+99999999); // 3 year 2 month 7 hours

 

Hey, that works, but when they refresh it will just keep showing "9seconds" instead of 8seconds, 7seconds,6seconds/etc.

 

:confused: