November 1, 2022 - Difference for humans

Laravel

I have recently been doing some updates to a website I created and had the need to alter the diffForHumans output that carbon provides to a laravel models created at time. Found this pretty interesting and thought I would share.

The system is a listing portal where you are either wanting to buy something other people have listed or alternatively you can list an item you would like to sell.

Difference for humans

Listing::first()->created_at
// => Illuminate\Support\Carbon @1667281103 {#4822
//      date: 2022-11-01 05:38:23.0 UTC (+00:00),
//    }

Listing::first()->created_at->diffForHumans();
// => "10 minutes ago"

Listing::first()->created_at->diffForHumans([
    'parts' => 1
]);
// => "10 minutes ago"

>>> Listing::first()->created_at->diffForHumans([
    'parts' => 2
]);
// => "10 minutes 36 seconds ago"

Listing::first()->created_at->diffForHumans([
    'parts' => 2,
    'join' => ' and '
]);
// => "10 minutes and 36 seconds ago"

I hope you find the above as usefull as I have. To find out more head over to nesbot carbon difference for humans and see how you can use it in your project.