Change Time format in Zend Framework

Question

Want to show Date, Time and Hours?

please help me to find out how to modify this code now its showing hours ago and days ago...

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abstract class Rss_Model_Feed_Abstract extends Core_Model_Default {

protected $_news = array();

protected function _parse() {
    $feed = Zend_Feed_Reader::import($this->getLink());
    $this->_news = new Core_Model_Default(array(
        'title'        => $feed->getTitle(),
        'link'         => $feed->getLink(),
        'dateModified' => $feed->getDateModified(),
        'description'  => $feed->getDescription(),
        'language'     => $feed->getLanguage(),
        'entries'      => array(),
    ));

    $data = array();
    foreach ($feed as $entry) {
        $picture = null;
        if($entry->getEnclosure() && $entry->getEnclosure()->url) $picture = $entry->getEnclosure()->url;

        $description = "";
        if($entry->getContent()) {
            $content = new Dom_SmartDOMDocument();
            $content->loadHTML($entry->getContent());
            $content->encoding = 'utf-8';
            $description = $content->documentElement;
            $imgs = $description->getElementsByTagName('img');

            if($imgs->length > 0) {

                foreach($imgs as $k => $img) {
                    if($k == 0) {

                        $img = $imgs->item(0);

                        if($img->getAttribute('src') AND stripos($img->getAttribute('src'), ".gif") === false) {
                            $picture = $img->getAttribute('src');
                            $img->parentNode->removeChild($img);
                        }

                    }

                    $img->removeAttribute('width');
                    $img->removeAttribute('height');
                }

            }

            $as = $description->getElementsByTagName('a');

            if($as->length > 0) {

                foreach($as as $a) {
                    $a->setAttribute('target', '_self');
                }
            }

            $description = $content->saveHTMLExact();
        }

        $timestamp = $entry->getDateCreated() ? $entry->getDateCreated()->getTimestamp() : null;
        $updated_at = null;
        if($timestamp) {
            $updated_at = $this->_getUpdatedAt($timestamp);
        }
        $edata = new Core_Model_Default(array(
            'entry_id'     => $entry->getId(),
            'title'        => $entry->getTitle(),
            'description'  => $description,
            'short_description'  => strip_tags($description),
            'dateModified' => $entry->getDateModified(),
            'authors'      => $entry->getAuthors(),
            'link'         => $entry->getLink(),
            'content'      => $description,
            'enclosure'    => $entry->getEnclosure(),
            'timestamp'    => $timestamp,
            'updated_at'   => $updated_at,
            'picture'      => $picture,
        ));

        $data[] = $edata;
    }

    $this->_news->setEntries($data);

    return $this;
}

protected function _getUpdatedAt($timestamp) {

    $date = new Zend_Date($timestamp);
    $now = Zend_Date::now();
    $difference = $now->sub($date);

    $seconds = $difference->toValue() % 60; $allMinutes = ($difference->toValue() - $seconds) / 60;
    $minutes = $allMinutes % 60; $allHours = ($allMinutes - $minutes) / 60;
    $hours =  $allHours % 24; $days = ($allHours - $hours) / 24;

    switch($days) {
        case 0: $days   = false; break;
        case 1: $days  .= " {$this->_('day')}"; break;
        default: $days .= " {$this->_('days')}"; break;
    }
    switch($hours) {
        case 0: $hours   = false; break;
        case 1: $hours  .= " {$this->_('hour')}"; break;
        default: $hours .= " {$this->_('hours')}"; break;
    }
    switch($minutes) {
        case 0: $minutes   = false; break;
        case 1: $minutes  .= " {$this->_('minute')}"; break;
        default: $minutes .= " {$this->_('minutes')}"; break;
    }
    switch($seconds) {
        case 0: $seconds   = false; break;
        case 1: $seconds  .= " {$this->_('second')}"; break;
        default: $seconds .= " {$this->_('seconds')}"; break;
    }

    $updated_at = '';
    if($days) {
        $updated_at = $days;
    } elseif($hours) {
        $updated_at = $hours;
    } elseif($minutes) {
        $updated_at = $minutes;
    } elseif($seconds) {
        $updated_at = $seconds;
    }

    return $this->_('%s ago', $updated_at);

}

}

Answer 1

I'm going to trust the naming i see in your code and assume the $timestamp is really a time stamp :)

In which case all you need is to format it in a desired shape using the PHP's date method, in other word you wont need the _getUpdatedAt method in your code.

so you have to change:

$timestamp = $entry->getDateCreated() ? $entry->getDateCreated()->getTimestamp() : null;
$updated_at = null;
if($timestamp) {
    $updated_at = $this->_getUpdatedAt($timestamp);
}

to

$timestamp = $entry->getDateCreated() ? $entry->getDateCreated()->getTimestamp() : null;
$updated_at = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $timestamp);

In the above example the displayDate will be something like 2015-09-28 10:34:56 which you can modify by amending the date's method first parameter 'Y-m-d H:i:s'

Answer 2

Hello I think you ask time date formatting

 // to show both date and time,
  $date->get('YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss');

  // or, to show date only
  $date->get('YYYY-MM-dd') 

this will help to get time and date