I'm trying to figure out how to shorten the output from a diffForHumans
method provided by the Carbon library in laravel.
The default format of diffForHumans
is something like this:(from documentation)
When comparing a value in the past to default now:
5 months ago
1 hour ago
But I want the output to be something like:
How can I achieve this?
As per the source code for diffForHumans
/**
* Get the difference in a human readable format in the current locale.
*
*
* @param Carbon|null $other
* @param bool $absolute removes time difference modifiers ago, after, etc
* @param bool $short displays short format of time units
*
* @return string
*/
public function diffForHumans(Carbon $other = null, $absolute = false, $short = false) {
...
}
to remove modifiers, pass the second parameter as true
and to get shortened version of time pass the third parameter as true
Source code at
vendor/nesbot/carbon/src/Carbon/Carbon.php