Carbon Diff For Humans - PHP

Introduction

Carbon Diff For Humans is a PHP library that makes it easy to display time differences in a "human readable" format. It provides a simple and intuitive API that allows you to create time intervals from datetime strings, Carbon objects, or timestamps.

Installation

Install the library using composer:

composer require nesbot/carbon

Usage

To get started, you need to create two Carbon objects to represent the start and end times of the time period you want to display. You can then pass these objects to the diffForHumans method to get a human readable representation of the time difference between the two dates.

use Carbon\Carbon;

$start = Carbon::create(2022, 4, 1, 8, 0, 0);
$end = Carbon::now();

echo $end->diffForHumans($start); // Output: 3 months ago

The diffForHumans method can also take a second parameter, which specifies the accuracy level of the time difference. By default, it will display the time difference to the smallest possible unit (e.g. "3 months ago"). However, you can specify a different accuracy level to display the time difference in larger units (e.g. "1 year ago").

echo $end->diffForHumans($start, 2); // Output: 3 months and 4 days ago
echo $end->diffForHumans($start, 4); // Output: 3 months, 4 days, 3 hours, and 30 minutes ago

Conclusion

Carbon Diff For Humans is a simple and powerful PHP library that makes it easy to display time differences in a human readable format. By using this library, you can improve the user experience of your PHP applications by making it easier for users to understand how long ago a particular event occurred.