How to calculate relative time PHP

Do you remember the post I wrote about How to calculate relative time like facebook?

The code was a little bit messy so today i'll show you a short snippet.

In my example I have stored the time in a datetime field in my MySQL database.

Then I'd like to know how many days ago was it.

// $my_database_field coud be -> "2011-06-04 09:52:01"
$days_ago = (time() - $my_database_field)/86400;Code language: PHP (php)

Easy, right? 😉

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