[PHP] Better timestamp explanation to the client

2005-09-08 Thread Ryan A
Hi, In one of our tables we have these fields: cust_no bigint(20), cust_name varchar(30), last_online datetime, and in that members profile, if someone visits it, on the top of the page we have this: // connect to db, query for record and display it below Last seen: ?php echo $last_online; ?

Re: [PHP] Better timestamp explanation to the client

2005-09-08 Thread Chris
I'd probably out how many minutes it's been, then format it using if statements. $iMinues = (value from database); if(1 $iMinutes) $sLastseen = 'Less than a minute ago!'; elseif(1 == $iMinutes) $sLastseen = '1 minute ago'; elseif(60 $iMinutes) $sLastseen = {$iMinutes} minutes ago; elseif(120

Re: [PHP] Better timestamp explanation to the client

2005-09-08 Thread Jordan Miller
methinks you should convert the datetime to a unix timestamp with strtotime(). then you can compare the difference between this timestamp and a unix timestamp of now to find if you have logged in within a min. of the previous time. Then, once you know what text to display (e.g. Less than a