How to display the current date, in the format "1 hour ago", "two weeks ago", etc.?

Question

PHP

Greetings!
Can you please tell me a PHP class for displaying a date in a format like VK, depending on a pre-set date? It is desirable that he be friends with the Russian language / cases.
That is, not "May 22, 2016, 13:00", but "30 minutes ago" (and so on).
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Use https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon
Namely, you need the diffForHumans method. Under carbon there are a bunch of locales and translations, you will find it for any language.
In addition, you will have to work with dates more than once, include Carbon in your projects anyway. Will always come in handy.

Answer 2

This is done not in PHP, but in JS, the usual date is displayed in php, JS formats it by replacing the contents of the block with a new one

Answer 3

//Текущее время
$now = new DateTime('now');
$timestamp_now = $now->getTimestamp();

//timestamp последнего посещения из БД
// $row - это строка из БД
$timestamp = $row['timestamp'];

// $result переводите в нужный формат
$result = $timestamp_now - $timestamp;