Passing date to the function and returning the time passed or elapsed when it was commented/posted. It is very useful when you have comment section in your website and you want to show how earlier comment was posted.

/**
* Creating the date difference in the correct text format.
*
* @param  date $recordCreated.
* @return string $finalResult Response.
*/
function getTimeDifferenceFormat($recordCreated) {
    $date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
    $datetime1 = new DateTime($date);
    $datetime2 = new DateTime($recordCreated);
    $interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
    $dateFormat = $interval->format('%a:%h:%i:%s');
    $data = explode(':', $dateFormat);
    $finalResult = "";
    if (!empty($data)) {
        $days = $data[0];
        $hours = $data[1];
        $minutes = $data[2];
        $seconds = $data[3];
        if ($days == 0) {
            if ($hours == 0) {
                if ($minutes == 0) {
                    $finalResult = "few seconds ago.";
                } else {
                    $finalResult = ($minutes == 1) ? $minutes . " minute ago." : $minutes . " minutes ago.";
                }
            } else {
                $finalResult = ($hours == 1) ? $hours . " hour ago." : $hours . " hours ago.";
            }
        } else {
            $finalResult = ($days == 1) ? $days . " day ago." : $days . " days ago.";
        }
    } else {
        $finalResult = "problem";
    }
    return $finalResult;
}