Blog posts - today/yesterday/x days ago problem

[SamC]

I'm trying to put a timestamp next to posts to show how long ago they were published. Is there something obvious I'm missing here as the only times I seem to be able to get are 'Today', 'Yesterday' and 3+ days ago, never '2 days ago'.

<ul class="list-unstyled">

        <?php
          $entries = $pages->find("template=blog-entry, sort=-postDate, limit=5");
          foreach ($entries as $entry):

            $timeStampNow = $datetime->date($format = "ts");
            // postDate is a Datetime field on the blog-entry template
            $timeStampPostDate = $entry->getUnformatted("postDate");
            $difference = $timeStampNow - $timeStampPostDate;
            
            if ($difference < 86400) {
              $daysAgo = "Today";
            }
            else if ($difference > 86400 && $difference < (86400 * 2)) {
              $daysAgo = "Yesterday";
            }
            else {
              $daysAgo = date("j", $difference) . " days ago";
            }
          ?>
            <li class="py-1"><a href="<?= $entry->url; ?>"><?= $entry->title; ?></a> - <?= $daysAgo; ?></li>

          <?php endforeach; ?>

        </ul>

Maybe I'm not taking into consideration the actual time of day they were posted, maybe the code above does work, but I've never been able to output '2 days ago' thus far. Any advice would be awesome, thanks.

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[abdus]

There's a function in the core for this:

function wireRelativeTimeStr($ts, $abbreviate = false, $useTense = true) {...) 

 

[SamC]

8 minutes ago, abdus said:

There's a function in the core for this:

function wireRelativeTimeStr($ts, $abbreviate = false, $useTense = true) {...) 

Thanks @abdus Found it now:

https://processwire.com/api/ref/datetime/relative-time-str/

I'll give it a shot.

[SamC]

Ok, working now, I changed the date picker to include an actual time too and tested:

// blog-index.php
<ul class="list-unstyled">

  <?php
    $entries = $pages->find("template=blog-entry, sort=-postDate, limit=5");
    foreach ($entries as $entry):
      $daysAgo = $datetime->relativeTimeStr($entry->getUnformatted("postDate"));
  ?>

  <li class="py-1"><a href="<?= $entry->url; ?>"><?= $entry->title; ?></a> - <?= $daysAgo; ?></li>

  <?php endforeach; ?>

</ul>

...and:

Gotta start checking that API reference more often.