Sometimes, we want to convert timestamp to time ago in PHP.
In this article, we’ll look at how to convert timestamp to time ago in PHP.
How to convert timestamp to time ago in PHP?
To convert timestamp to time ago in PHP, we can use Carbon.
For instance, we write
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Carbon\Carbon;
$dt = Carbon::parse('2019-9-5 23:26:11.123789');
echo $dt->diffForHumans();
to call Carbon::parse
with the time string that we want to get the elapsed datetime string in a human readable format.
Then we call diffForHumans
to return a string of the elasped datetime in human readable format.
We install it with
composer require nesbot/carbon
Conclusion
To convert timestamp to time ago in PHP, we can use Carbon.