Show time HH:MM:SS

[tjverge]

I found this function and take no credit for it, I'm trying to get it to show HH:MM:SS when I have the total number of seconds, but nothing is showing on the screen

 

  function sec2hms ($sec, $padHours = false) 
  {

    // start with a blank string
    $hms = "";
    
    // do the hours first: there are 3600 seconds in an hour, so if we divide
    // the total number of seconds by 3600 and throw away the remainder, we're
    // left with the number of hours in those seconds
    $hours = intval(intval($sec) / 3600); 

    // add hours to $hms (with a leading 0 if asked for)
    $hms .= ($padHours) 
          ? str_pad($hours, 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT). ":"
          : $hours. ":";
    
    // dividing the total seconds by 60 will give us the number of minutes
    // in total, but we're interested in *minutes past the hour* and to get
    // this, we have to divide by 60 again and then use the remainder
    $minutes = intval(($sec / 60) % 60); 

    // add minutes to $hms (with a leading 0 if needed)
    $hms .= str_pad($minutes, 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT). ":";

    // seconds past the minute are found by dividing the total number of seconds
    // by 60 and using the remainder
    $seconds = intval($sec % 60); 

    // add seconds to $hms (with a leading 0 if needed)
    $hms .= str_pad($seconds, 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);

    // done!
    return $hms;
    
  }

 

The part of the code to show the data is below:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$sec = time() - strtotime($row['starttime']);
echo $sec; // print to screen to make sure $sec had a value
sec2hms($sec);

}

 

Any guidance on where I went wrong?

[BlueSkyIS]

you need to echo the return value.

 

echo sec2hms($sec);

[tjverge]

wow thanks