Get an hour and minutes of a timestamp in cakePHP/ PHP

Question

Sounds like a silly queston, but I need a quick answer and could not find it.

I have a timestamp: '15:40:00', and I need to create two separate variables: hours and minutes.

Much much appreciated.

Answer 1

You can also use one function sscanf() ^{(variables will be integer type)} :

sscanf('15:40:00', '%d:%d:%d', $hours, $minutes, $seconds);

demo

Answer 2

list() and explode() work well here.

list($hours, $minutes, $seconds) = explode(':', '15:40:00');