Format filemtime() in human date

Question

how can i display e.g. Today or Yesterday if a file was changed today or yesterday instead of the date with filemtime ?

snipped:

$date = date('d-m-Y', $timestamp);
$today = date('d-m-Y');
$yesterday = date('d-m-Y', strtotime('yesterday')); 
$otherdate= get_the_date();

$file= 'index.php';
$time= filemtime ( $file);

Thanks!

Answer 1

You are almost there. Just need to add a formatter to filemtime and compare to the today and yesterday dates:

$date = date('d-m-Y', $timestamp);
$today = date('d-m-Y');
$yesterday = date('d-m-Y', strtotime('yesterday')); 
$otherdate= get_the_date();

$file= 'index.php';
$time= date('d-m-Y', filemtime($file));

if( $time == $today ) {
    echo 'Modified Today';
} else if( $time == $yesterday ) {
    echo 'Modified Yesterday';
}