Reputation: 141

time deduction and exchange in PHP

May i ask you how can i calculate the period by deduct two time parameter like below

$time_1 = $rows['code_send_time'];
$period = time() - $time_1;

after I echo the $period how can I exchange to minute and know how many minutes has passed?

The result after I deduct is "151341193030" and I want the result will be "30" (mins) or "1800" (seconds)

Thanks for your help!

Upvotes: 0

Answers (3)

Reputation: 6300

$time_1 = $rows['code_send_time'];

// As you said you get 151341193030 here
$period = time() - $time_1;

$period contains the number of seconds. So if you want to get minutes you can divide it by 60 and it you'd like to get hours then divide it by 3600.

Upvotes: 0

Reputation: 3194

You can use the DateTime object for this. If you check out the docs there is this method: DateTime::diff

Upvotes: 1

Reputation: 1792

Add what you have to this:

sec2hms( $period );

Upvotes: 0