Change number of days to months/years

Question

So I have this code that is responsible to display how many days ago a user joined a website:

<?php echo sprintf(__('Joined %s ago','PricerrTheme'),$joined); ?>

However, what it shows now is, for example, " Joined 150 days ago. "

What I want to make it display is, for example, " Joined 5 months ago. "

It should be a small edit to that code I posted above. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

You can use DateTime ( look here ) PHP Class and make code like this:

$interval = new DateInterval('P'.$joined.'D');
$days = $interval->format('%d'); // This will convert in days
$months = $interval->format('%m'); // This will convert in months
$years = $interval->format('%y'); // This will convert in years

To decide which of these you need, you can use mathematic conditions, like:

if($joined / 30 > 0) {
    if($joined / 30 > 12) {
        // Show years
    } 
    // Show months
} else {
    // Show days
}