php: simple way to convert time into readable time

[unwashed potato!]

can't seem to find a way to do this and i'm sure it must be really simple. i have googled a lot but i think i am googling the wrong phrase to get the results i am after.

i have lets say a comment system which records when the comment was posted and then adds 30 days and then records when the comment will expire and get removed.

now i want to work out how long until the comment expires and show this to the user, so i subtracted the expire time from the current time() leaving a number like 2710380.

how do i work out how much this number is in a readable time like 1 day 3 hours and 21 seconds? i'm hoping there is just a simple way like i do the following $timeLeft/60/60*24 to get days etc?

thanks

 

[unwashed potato!]

What format are you storing the expire time in the db as?

well it's stored as a timestamp but i converted it to time using strtotime() so i can compare to time() to see if it's already expired.

 

[unwashed potato!]

What format are you storing the expire time in the db as?

edit: Does this help http://www.phpro.org/examples/Convert-Seconds-To-Hours-Minutes-Seconds-Words.html ?

almost missed your suggestion. thanks as it worked out exactly as wanted as i only needed it for when it expires in less then 1 day.