title: How does my php function for converting a date to facebook timestamp look? New to PHP
body: <p>any suggestions to make it better?</p>
  
  <pre><code>function convertToFBTimestamp($date){
  $this_date = date('Y-m-d-H-i-s', strtotime($date));
  $cur_date = date('Y-m-d-H-i-s');
  
  list ($this_year, $this_month, $this_day, $this_hour, $this_min, $this_sec) = explode('-',$this_date);
  list ($cur_year, $cur_month, $cur_day, $cur_hour, $cur_min, $cur_sec) = explode('-',$cur_date);
  
  $this_unix_time = mktime($this_hour, $this_min, $this_sec, $this_month, $this_day, $this_year);
  $cur_unix_time = mktime($cur_hour, $cur_min, $cur_sec, $cur_month, $cur_day, $cur_year);
  $cur_unix_date = mktime(0, 0, 0, $cur_month, $cur_day, $cur_year);
  
  $dif_in_sec = $cur_unix_time - $this_unix_time;
  $dif_in_min = (int)($dif_in_sec / 60);
  $dif_in_hours = (int)($dif_in_min / 60);
  
  if(date('Y-m-d',strtotime($date))== date('Y-m-d'))
  {
      if($dif_in_sec &lt; 60)
      {
          return $dif_in_sec." seconds ago";
      }
      elseif($dif_in_sec &lt; 120)
      {
          return "about a minute ago";
      }
      elseif($dif_in_min &lt; 60)
      {
          return $dif_in_min." minutes ago";
      }
      else
      {
          if($dif_in_hours == 1)
          {
              return $dif_in_hours." hour ago";
          }
          else
          {   
              return $dif_in_hours." hours ago";
          }
      }
  }
  elseif($cur_unix_date - $this_unix_time &lt; 86400 )
  {
      return strftime("Yesterday at %l:%M%P",$this_unix_time);
  }
  elseif($cur_unix_date - $this_unix_time &lt; 259200)
  {
      return strftime("%A at %l:%M%P",$this_unix_time);
  }
  else 
  {
      if($this_year == $cur_year)
      {
          return strftime("%B, %e at %l:%M%P",$this_unix_time);
      }
      else
      {
          return strftime("%B, %e %Y at %l:%M%P",$this_unix_time);
      }   
  }
  </code></pre>
  
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