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    copied!<p>The problem you were having was because if $time was less than 1 then there wasn't any lesser denomination for it.</p> <p>I fixed it with an if statement and also renamed a variable</p> <pre><code>function time_elapsed_string($time) { $time_diff = time() - $time; $tokens = array( 31536000 =&gt; 'year', 2592000 =&gt; 'month', 604800 =&gt; 'week', 86400 =&gt; 'day', 3600 =&gt; 'hour', 60 =&gt; 'minute', 1 =&gt; 'second', ); if ($time_diff &lt; 1) return '0 seconds'; foreach($tokens as $unit =&gt; $text) { if($time_diff &lt; $unit) continue; $numberOfUnits = floor($time_diff / $unit); return $numberOfUnits.' '.$text.(($numberOfUnits&gt;1)?'s':''); } } </code></pre> <p>You can also use the following, verbatim from the PHP docs: Source: <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.time.php" rel="nofollow">http://php.net/manual/en/function.time.php</a></p> <p>Two quick approaches to getting the time elapsed in human readable form.</p> <p> <pre><code>function time_elapsed_A($secs){ $bit = array( 'y' =&gt; $secs / 31556926 % 12, 'w' =&gt; $secs / 604800 % 52, 'd' =&gt; $secs / 86400 % 7, 'h' =&gt; $secs / 3600 % 24, 'm' =&gt; $secs / 60 % 60, 's' =&gt; $secs % 60 ); foreach($bit as $k =&gt; $v) if($v &gt; 0)$ret[] = $v . $k; return join(' ', $ret); } function time_elapsed_B($secs){ $bit = array( ' year' =&gt; $secs / 31556926 % 12, ' week' =&gt; $secs / 604800 % 52, ' day' =&gt; $secs / 86400 % 7, ' hour' =&gt; $secs / 3600 % 24, ' minute' =&gt; $secs / 60 % 60, ' second' =&gt; $secs % 60 ); foreach($bit as $k =&gt; $v){ if($v &gt; 1)$ret[] = $v . $k . 's'; if($v == 1)$ret[] = $v . $k; } array_splice($ret, count($ret)-1, 0, 'and'); $ret[] = 'ago.'; return join(' ', $ret); } $nowtime = time(); $oldtime = 1335939007; echo "time_elapsed_A: ".time_elapsed_A($nowtime-$oldtime)."\n"; echo "time_elapsed_B: ".time_elapsed_B($nowtime-$oldtime)."\n"; /** Output: time_elapsed_A: 6d 15h 48m 19s time_elapsed_B: 6 days 15 hours 48 minutes and 19 seconds ago. **/ </code></pre>
 

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