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Laravel Carbon DiffForHumans Option (Years, Months, Days)

I have read through the documentation of DiffForHumans and it’s very straightforward, but is there a way to customize the date to print out:

  • 13 Years, 1 Month, 10 Days
  • 01 Year, 11 Months, 01 Day

where it will respect the Year/Years, Month/Months, Day/Days?

  • Approach 1:

    $date = Carbon::parse('2010-08-29');
$formattedDate = $date->diffForHumans(['parts' => 3, 'join' => ', '];

    Will print out 13 years, 1 month, 4 weeks ago

  • Approach 2:

    $date = Carbon::parse('2010-08-29');
$formattedDate = $date->diff(now())->format('%y Year, %m Months and %d Days')

    Will print out 13 Year, 1 Months and 28 Days

  • Approach 3 (Backup option):

    $date = Carbon::parse('2010-08-29');
$formattedDate = $date->diff(now())->format('%y Year(s), %m Month(s) and %d Day(s)')

    Will print out 13 Year(s), 1 Month(s) and 28 Day(s)

Is there a vanilla PHP class that could accomplish something similar?

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Answers


  1. 0

    You can skip unit(s) you don’t want:

    $date = Carbon::parse('2010-08-29');
$formattedDate = $date->diffForHumans([
    'parts' => 3,
    'join' => true,
    'skip' => 'week',
]);

    Side note: 'join' => true automatically use ,–and (and translate it if you select another language)

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  2. 0

    That’s the custom function for handling same problem:

    function customDiffForHumans(DateTime $date) {
    $now = new DateTime();
    $diff = $date->diff($now);

    $years = $diff->y ? $diff->y . ' Year' . ($diff->y > 1 ? 's' : '') : null;
    $months = $diff->m ? $diff->m . ' Month' . ($diff->m > 1 ? 's' : '') : null;
    $days = $diff->d ? $diff->d . ' Day' . ($diff->d > 1 ? 's' : '') : null;

    return implode(', ', array_filter([$years, $months, $days]));
}

$date = new DateTime('2010-08-29');
return customDiffForHumans($date);
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  3. 0

    You could try this example:

    Carbon::parse('07-09-2014')->locale('en')->diffForHumans(
    [
        'parts' => 3,
        'join' => ', ',
        'skip' => 'week',
        'syntax' => Carbon::DIFF_ABSOLUTE,
    ]
)

    Expected output:

    "9 years, 1 month, 20 days"

    But yes, this example will not cover leading zero and StudlyCase (you could use headline) issues

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