Level 73
You can use diffForHumans to do that.
$time->diffForHumans()
Example this
$time = Carbon\Carbon::now();
echo $time->diffForHumans();
Would give you something like this
1 second ago
Jan 6, 2021
6
Level 4
Carbon display hour(s) or minute(s)
I'm trying to display the duration from a timestamp field. I want to display the duration as:
- 1 hour or
- 2 hours or
- 1 minute or
- 45 minutes
I tried the following, but this returns always 0 hours.
public function getDisplayHumanDurationAttribute()
{
$time = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $this->duration);
return $time->diffInHours($this->duration) . Str::plural(' hour', $time->diffInHours($this->duration));
}
I'm not even sure if this is the best way to store that duration value in the database. But i thought i could use this in the future when i might have situations where i need to put starts_at and ends_at and then calculate the difference. But for now it's just one timestamp field with the duration in hours or minutes.
Level 24
are you looking for
public function getDisplayHumanDurationAttribute()
{
return Carbon::parse($this->attributes['field_name'])->diffForHumans();
}
Level 4
@tray2 and @newbie360 i tried that but that always adds "ago" or something like that at the end. I just need it like 1 hour or 2 hours
Perhaps it's better to just add that duration as a string to the database instead of using a timestamp
Level 24
public function getDisplayHumanDurationAttribute()
{
return Carbon::parse($this->attributes['field_name'])->diffForHumans(null, true);
}
Level 73
Then you can do this
$time->diffForHumans(['syntax' => Carbon\CarbonInterface::DIFF_ABSOLUTE]);
it will give you
1 second
Level 4
@newbie360 and @tray2 Thanks you both, both answers are doing what i want. But i can only set one as best.
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