Php Time

[Kingy]

this should be pretty simple for a lot of you, but this is really annoying...

 

Im trying to make an online timer.. eg I have been online for so many days, hours, minutes, seconds etc etc

 

now im sure you would do it something like

 

$starttime = time();

 

and then when i call for current time

 

$currenttime = time() - $starttime;

 

the problem i am having is how do i turn this is 15 seconds, or 1 day 4 hours 7 minutes 39 seconds?

[teng84]

if you're getting the stored time in your DB all you need to use datediff() timediff() which are sql functions

[Kingy]

nah i'm not planning on using sql..

 

it will be more along the links of

 

<?php

 

$starttime = time();

 

while(blahblah)

{

if the `time command is requested it will then get the time now and compare it to the start time

}

 

?>

[revraz]

http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/php/php-datediff-function/

[Kingy]

thats a very large and confusing function to me, but thanks anyway i guess i'll try and look through it removing stuff i don't need :s

[Daukan]

If you only need days hours mins seconds you can do something like this

<?php
      //convert timepassed to days hours and mins
      $starttime = 1200213497;
      $timepassed = time() - $starttime;
      $days     = ($timepassed-($timepassed%86400))/86400;
      $timepassed = $timepassed - $days*86400;
      $hours    = ($timepassed - ($timepassed%3600))/3600;
      $timepassed = $timepassed - $hours*3600;
      $mins     = ($timepassed - ($timepassed%60))/60;
      $seconds  = $timepassed%60;
echo $days.':'.$hours.':'.$mins.':'.$seconds;
?>

[Kingy]

oh thank you so much, thats exactly what i needed..

 

one last question, what would be the easiest way to make it so if days and hours were = to zero it would only display minutes and seconds.

 

eg:

 

if ($days == 0) {

echo "$hours hours $mins minutes and $seconds seconds";

} else {

echo "$days days $hours hours $mins minutes and $seconds seconds";

}

 

would i have to go through and make an if statement for all of them..

 

if ($days == 0 && $hours == 0) {

}

 

??

[Daukan]

Yeah if statements would work

<?php
      //convert timepassed to days hours and mins
      $starttime = 1200213487;
      $timepassed = time() - $starttime;
      $days     = ($timepassed-($timepassed%86400))/86400;
      $hours    = floor( ($timepassed%86400)/3600 );
      $mins     = floor( ($timepassed%3600)/60 );
      $seconds  = $timepassed%60;

      if($days > 0)
        echo $days.':';
      if($days > 0 && $hours > 0 )
        echo $hours.':';

echo $mins.':'.$seconds;
?>

[Daukan]

Oops, that code logic won't actually work as is, and my edit time expired...