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realodix/readtime
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Medium's like reading time estimation.

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Read time
=========

[](#read-time)

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📚 Medium's like reading time estimation, based on [Medium's read time formula](https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214991667-Read-time).

Sites like Medium.com have popularized the concept of giving users an estimate for the amount of time it will take them to read the content. With this convenience in mind, ReadTime gives PHP developers the same tool for their readable content. It's a simple feature that will give a nice touch to your PHP application.

### Features

[](#features)

- Calculates read time of images in decreasing progression (Example - 12 seconds for the first image, 11 for the second, until images counted at 3 seconds).
- Calculates read time of the Chinese / Japanese / Korean characters separately.
- Removes unwanted html tags to calculate read time more efficiently.

**Reference**

- [help.medium.com/articles/Read-time](https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214991667-Read-time)
- [medium.com/blogging-guide/how-is-medium-article-read-time-calculated](https://medium.com/blogging-guide/how-is-medium-article-read-time-calculated-924420338a85)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can install the package via composer:

```
composer require realodix/readtime
```

Quick start
-----------

[](#quick-start)

Here is an example of the most basic usage:

```