Last modified using format_interval

Question

I would like to show interval time for nodes were last modified. I am using the following code:

<?php print "Last Modified" . format_interval($node->changed, $langcode, "short"); ?>

I am using $langcode as proposed here to display it in Arabic, but it is not working and I am not sure if I am using it the right way because I get this error Notice: Undefined variable: langcode in include()

Whenever I update any content; interval time still set to 0 sec, so what is wrong with the code?

Answer 1

Your code contains two errors:

• You are using a variable which has not been initialized
• You are passing the wrong arguments to format_interval()

The required arguments are:

• $interval
  It's not a timestamp, but the number of seconds until now. In your case, you should use time() - $node->changed.

• $granularity It's the number of units that are shown; if you pass 2 as value for $granularity and the interval is for 1 year, 3 months, and 2 weeks, format_interval() will return "1 year 3 months".

• $langcode
  It's the language code for the language to use. If you are hard-coding the language to be Arabic, you should use "ar".