Date and Time Format like Facebook in PHP

This simple PHP example will return a date and time format like facebook, generated from a mysql datetime field. Input Format: date('Y-m-d H:i:s')

<?php
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function getDateTime($datetime)
{
    $datetime=strtotime($datetime);
    $yesterday=strtotime(date('Y-m-d', mktime(0,0,0, date("m") , date("d") - 1, date("Y"))));
    $tomorrow=strtotime(date('Y-m-d', mktime(0,0,0, date("m") , date("d") + 1, date("Y"))));
    $time=strftime('%H:%M',$datetime);
    $date=strftime('%e %b %Y',$datetime);
 
    if($date==strftime('%e %b %Y',strtotime(date('Y-m-d'))))
    {
        $date="Today";
    }
    elseif($date==strftime('%e %b %Y',$yesterday))
    {
        $date="Yesterday";
    }
    elseif($datum==strftime('%e %b %Y',$tomorrow))
    {
        $date="Tomorrow";
    }
 
    return $date." at ".$time;
}



?>

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