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Timestamp from 2 years ago as x Days x Weeks x Months x Years ago

How can i take a timestamp from say, 2 years ago and have the output as:
2 years 3 months 2 weeks and 3 days.

it is in answer to the question "How long have i been Representing this person?":
"you have represented them for........: 2 years 3 months 2 weeks and 3 days.

Using PHP

function _represented_for($timestamp){
 
(what goes here??)
 
return "2 years, 3 months, 2 weeks and 3 days.";
}

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Xemorph

I find this example a bit more simple. Though maybe not as robust. Again, leap years could throw off the results a bit.

function _represented_for($timestamp){
 
	$now = time();
	if(is_numeric($timestamp)){
		
		// $time_diff = number of secs from the time given to now.
		$time_diff = $now - $timestamp;
		
		// Subtract 1970 to get the correct year.
		$years = (int)date('Y', $time_diff) - 1970;
		$months = (int)date('j', $time_diff);
		$days = (int)date('', $time_diff);
		
		return $years. ' years, '.$months.' months, '.$days.' days.';
	}
}

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ussher

ASKER

Hey, Thanks Xemorph. Yep that would have done fine too. Got it working now. If i ever refer back to this it will be good to have your example here for reference as well.

Thanks very much