Time/Date - posted

[thesti]

hi,

i'm new to php.
how to show the time / date, a message is posted. like in forums, there are something like, "5 minutes ago", "8 hourse 17 minutes ago", "Yesterdar", "10-07-2008". in every post.

thanks

[Jeigh]

You'll have to store the time in the database. Make this column datetime eg:

ALTER TABLE somthing ADD date_added datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT "0000-00-00 00:00:00"

You can get the current time by usind the date(); function in PHP:

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$date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time());
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This will give you time in the format yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss. As for displaying it in formats such as 'Yesterday' and '5 Days Ago' etc. you will need to do additional PHP coding.