尝试将MysQl时间戳转换为Time Ago时无法解析时间字符串

Question

I'm trying to convert MysQl timestamp to display time ago but I get this error

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (1493324845)

script

<?php 
//convert timestamp to time ago
$start_date = new DateTime();
$time = strtotime($streamuser['Datetime']);
$dbDate = new DateTime($time);
$currDate = new DateTime();
$interval = $currDate->diff($dbDate);
?>
<span><?php  echo $interval->d." days ".$interval->h." hours";?></span>

MysQl Timestamp format is 2017-04-27 22:27:25

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I was getting the error because I was trying to parse string where date_diff() expects datetime object. This works for me:

   <?php 
    //convert timestamp to time ago
    $dbDate =$streamuser['Datetime'];
    $date = new DateTime($dbDate);
    $now = new DateTime();
   ?>
   <span style="font-size:smaller;">
   <?php  echo $date->diff($now)->format("%d days, %h hours and %i minutes");?> ago</span>