laravel - Carbon | diffForHumans() shorter version?

Question

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:

  1. 5 months ago

  2. 1 hour ago

But I want the output to be something like:

1. 1 h
2. 5 mins
3. 5 months
4. 2 years
5. Just Now

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

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