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Today I would like to write some code about calculating time elapsed in PHP. Especially if we want to know the elapsed time of inserted records (seconds, minutes, hours , days etc).

For example – Posted 1 週前、3 時間前、50 分間前、30秒間前。

Here is our function to calculate the time eclipse

<?php

function time_elapsed($datetime) {
    $now = new DateTime;
    $ago = new DateTime($datetime);
    //getting the time differences.
    $diff = $now->diff($ago);

    $diff->w = floor($diff->d / 7); //week
    $diff->d -= $diff->w * 7; //day

    //string arrays of formats
    $string = array(
        'y' => '年',
        'm' => '月',
        'w' => '週',
        'd' => '日',
        'h' => '時間',
        'i' => '分',
        's' => '秒',
    );

    //mapping the time difference and format
    foreach ($string as $k => &$v) {
        if ($diff->$k) {
            $v = $diff->$k . ' ' . $v; 
        } else {
            unset($string[$k]);
        }
    }

    //only getting the first array key and value
    $string = array_slice($string, 0, 1);
    return $string ? implode(', ', $string) . '前' : 'ちょうど今';
}

I have included the comments in code so that you can be able to understand it. Let’s call our function to test.

echo time_elapsed("2020-12-06 11:24:25"); //output 1 月前
echo time_elapsed(date("Y-m-d H:i:s")); //output ちょうど今

PS. we have to care about our server timezone when we are dealing with Datetime functions

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Today I would like to talk about using the function from controller directly on your blade view files.

Normally we wrote codes relating with application logic and database and then pass the data to specific view files. But what if we like to use the function from controller directly ?

We can create a static function in controller and then can directly be called from blade file without instantiating the class. Let me write a sample example.

Firstly, we will create a static function in controller. Why static function ?

If we create a normal function, we will need to instantiate the class in view file like this `new Controller()` which will be a mess in view files. Static function can be directly called using scope resolution (::) operator.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

class HomeController extends Controller
{
    public static function greet() 
    {
        return "Hello World";
    }
}

After that we can call the above controller function directly by providing the namespace of the controller and function using scope resolution operator like this.

<p>                                    
{{ App\Http\Controllers\HomeController::greet() }}
<!-- output - Hello World -->
</p>

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I introduced an extension called daily.dev to read the development related articles. I will introduce more browser extension that are extremely useful next time. Also today I would like to introduce an extension called wappalyzer

Wappalyzer is a technology profiler that shows you what websites are built with.

Further more, it discovers more than a thousand technologies in dozens of categories such as programming languages, analytics, marketing tools, payment processors, CRM, CDN and others.

Go ahead this link and install the extension.

Lets take a look at yahoo website, https://www.yahoo.co.jp/

We can see the technologies we are using through the wapplyzer extension like this.

Lets take a look at another site medium.com, and lets see what technologies they are using.

Conclusion, this is a very useful plugin to trace technologies in a website such an easy way.

By Yuuma.

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データベースの復元処理など、ダンプファイルの容量がアップロード可能な最大ファイルサイズの初期設定(2MB)を超えている場合があります。

今回はそのような場合の対処方法を3パターン紹介します。

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Today, I would like to introduce an extension I am using to read programming news daily & often. There are tons of websites or blogs publishing programming related news and I can’t decide which one to use and I found this extension.

It’s called daily.dev. It is the easiest way to stay updated on the latest programming news. With daily.dev, we can get the best articles from the best tech publications on any topic as below.

Publications we can get from.

We can also choose the favorite tags we want.

You can go ahead to this link and install the extension. When you go to new tab on browser, this will look like this as final result.

By Yuuma

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