Formatting bigint into weeks, days and hours

General PHP Help
#1

Hi guys. I hate to post this really nooby question here but here it is.
I’m trying to format a number into weeks, days and hours to display total run time in a dynamic signature but I’m not sure how to do it.
I have only been using php for 2 days and Java is more my forte.

I wrote this.

[php]
function formatTime($time) {
$seconds = $time / 1000;
$minutes = $seconds / 60;
$seconds %= 60;
$h = ($minutes / 60);
$minutes %= 60;
$d = ($h / 24);
$h %= 24;
$w = ($d / 7);
$d %= 7;
$s = $w == 1 ? “” : “s”;
$s1 = $d == 1 ? “” : “s”;
$s2 = $h == 1 ? “” : “s”;
return $w . " Week" . $s . “, " . $d . " Day” . $s1 . " and " . $h . " Hour" . $s2 . “.”;
}
[/php]

It doesn’t work though. I think I’m treating php too much like Java and haven’t understood something somewhere. Can anyone shed any light on where I’m going wrong?

#2

What is the value of $time? I’m confused why you need to convert it to seconds

#3

$time is a value stored to milliseconds but I’m going to convert it to seconds before I store it in the database in future.

#4

Can you post a sample value?

#5

There’s a couple ways to do this but here’s an example:

[php]
$weeks = intval($seconds / 604800); // 60 * 60 * 24 * 7
$days = intval($seconds / 86400 % 7); // 60 * 60 * 24
$hours = intval($seconds / 3600 % 24); // 60 * 60
[/php]

#6

or just use date(), it has all those things built in.

#7

How do you mean? Unless I misunderstood the question I’m pretty sure date() can’t do anything like this heh

#8

If all he wants is the month, day, year, and so on, then date() will give that to him, something like date(‘y-m-d’, strtotime($time)); would print out 2012-11-24. i use date(“F d, Y”, $postdate)." at ". date(“g:i a”, $postdate), which prints out October 22, 2012 at 11:00 pm. My dates are already in a unix format, but all he needs to use is strototime() to change from milliseconds to a standard format. Something like date(‘h:i:s a’, strtotime($r[‘date’])) will give him hours:minutes:seconds am/pm.

#9

I don’t think he means seconds as a timestamp but rather seconds elapsed. For example

[php]time() - ((604800 * 2) + (86400 * 2) + (3600 * 2))[/php]

Would be 2 weeks, 2 days, 2 hours

#10

idk, it sounded to me like he already had the time stored in ms, he just needed a way of formatting it, which date will do.

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