Help converting seconds to minutes and hours

[edd12345678]

Hi,

 

I wonder if someone could possibly help me.

 

I have a countdown timer which will count down from a value in my SQL database. However it count downs in seconds and I need it to show in format hh:mm:ss.

 

I have tried using:

 

<?php echo gmdate("H:i:s",  $timeTilEnd);?>

 

Which starts it off but soon as it counts down one second goes back to just showing the seonds.

 

My full code for the timer is:

 

<?php
//Start of Timer Function
if (!isset($_SESSION['endOfTimer'])){
    $endOfTimer = time() + $time * 60; //multiplys the time in db by 60 to create second countdown.  
$_SESSION['endOfTimer'] = $endOfTimer;
}

if(($_SESSION['endOfTimer'] - time()) < 0) {
      $timeTilEnd = 0;
}

else {
      $timeTilEnd = $_SESSION['endOfTimer'] - time();
}

if($timeTilEnd <= 0) {
session_destroy();
}

?>
<script type="text/javascript">
var TimeLeft = <?php echo $timeTilEnd; ?>;

function countdown()
{
      if(TimeLeft > 0) {
            TimeLeft -= 1;
            document.getElementById('timer').innerHTML = TimeLeft;
      }
  if(TimeLeft <= 60) { 
           //add text here to change color of message when in the last minute
      }
  
if(TimeLeft <= 0) { 
            window.location = "Test-Finished.php"
      }
}
CountFunc = setInterval(countdown,1000);
</script>

 

<?php echo gmdate("H:i:s",  $timeTilEnd);?>

 

Has anyone got any ideas on how I can do this, Its driving me mad.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Edd

[php.ajax.coder]

Ran in to this problem a few days ago here's the code i use

 

$time = the number of seconds

 

<?php
         function format_time($time){
	$seconds = $time % 60;
	$time = ($time - $seconds) / 60;
	$minutes = $time % 60;
	$hours = ($time - $minutes) / 60;

	//Format Number
	return sprintf('%02d', $hours) . ":" . sprintf('%02d', $minutes) . ":" . sprintf('%02d', $seconds);
}
?>

[lonewolf217]

format your javascript output to show the time properly

 

document.getElementById('timer').innerHTML = (Math.floor(TimeLeft/60) + " minutes and " + (TimeLeft%60) + " seconds");

[edd12345678]

Hi,

 

Many thanks for both of your replies.

 

I have implemented both and they do work. However they do not countdown like my timer did before.

 

The time left is only displayed when the page is refreshed. Is there away to use the code you suggested and have it so it counts down the time?

 

Thanks  in advance.

 

Edd

[lonewolf217]

this works, you can adapt it to your need

<span id="TIME"></span>
<Script type="text/javascript">
var TimeLeft = 100;
function countdown()
{
      if(TimeLeft > 0) {
            TimeLeft -= 1;
            document.getElementById("TIME").innerHTML =(Math.floor(TimeLeft/60) + " minutes and " + (TimeLeft%60) + " seconds");
      }
  if(TimeLeft <= 60) { 
           //add text here to change color of message when in the last minute
      }
  
if(TimeLeft <= 0) { 
            document.write("DONE!");
		return false;
      }
  t=setTimeout("countdown()",1000);
}
countdown();
</script>

[edd12345678]

Thankyou thats just what I needed! Is it easy to set it so it works out the hours as well?

 

Thanks again

 

Ed

[lonewolf217]

you can easily modify the math to show whatever you want

[edd12345678]

Thankyou