PHP: date "Yesterday", "Today"

Question

I have a little function that shows latest activity, it grab timestamp in unix format from the db, and then it echo out with this line:

 date("G:i:s j M -Y", $last_access)

Now i would like to replace the date (j M -Y) to Yesterday, and Today if the latest activity was within today, and same goes with Yesterday.

How can i do this?

Answer 1

I would find the timestap for last midnight and the one before it, if $last_access is between the two timestamps, then display yesterday, anything greater than last midnight's timestamp would be today...

I believe that would be the quicker than doing date arithmetic.

Actually, I just tested this code and it seems to work great:

<?php
    if ($last_access >= strtotime("today"))
        echo "Today";
    else if ($last_access >= strtotime("yesterday"))
        echo "Yesterday";
?>

Answer 2

function get_day_name($timestamp) {

    $date = date('d/m/Y', $timestamp);

    if($date == date('d/m/Y')) {
      $date = 'Today';
    } 
    else if($date == date('d/m/Y',now() - (24 * 60 * 60))) {
      $date = 'Yesterday';
    }
    return $date;
}
print date('G:i:s', $last_access).' '.get_day_name($last_access);