🌈 Friendly Format

Tips

It is generally used on social platforms, comments, forums, etc

toFriendly()

Returns a friendly date format, such as N seconds ago or in N seconds

Parameters

Parameter	Introduction	Require
time	Any type of string time or timestamp	required
lang	Language: zh for Chinese, en for English	Optional, the default value is zh

Return Values

Friendly date format

Past dates return text such as 2小时前 or 2 hours ago. Future dates return 2小时后 or in 2 hours. A date in the same second returns 刚刚 or just now, depending on the selected language.

Example code

/* Convert to a friendly date format */
TimeHelper::toFriendly('2022-3-2 10:15:33');
// 3天前

/* Convert to a friendly date format */
TimeHelper::toFriendly(1646186290, 'en');
// 6 hours ago

/* Convert a future time to a friendly date format */
TimeHelper::toFriendly(time() + 7500, 'en');
// in 2 hours

/* Convert a future time to a friendly date format (Chinese) */
TimeHelper::toFriendly(time() + 7500);
// 2小时后