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Ali M
Ali M

Reputation: 85

laravel 5.6 start time end time duration

I am trying to make a function in Laravel 5.6

I have a $start_time, $end_time and $duration variables.

I would like to get time slots from the start time until end time, in $duration periods, for example:

$duration = 30 min     
$start_time = 9:00 am
$end_time = 9:00 pm

Results:

-9:00 - 9:30
-9:30 - 10:00
-10:00 - 10:30
.... etc

Also, I would like to not show the slot where time overlaps with appointments in my database.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5310

Answers (2)

syam
syam

Reputation: 892

    $starttime = '9:00';  // your start time
    $endtime = '21:00';  // End time
    $duration = '30';  // split by 30 mins

    $array_of_time = array ();
    $start_time    = strtotime ($starttime); //change to strtotime
    $end_time      = strtotime ($endtime); //change to strtotime

    $add_mins  = $duration * 60;

    while ($start_time <= $end_time) // loop between time
    {
       $array_of_time[] = date ("h:i", $start_time);
       $start_time += $add_mins; // to check endtie=me
    }

    $new_array_of_time = array ();
    for($i = 0; $i < count($array_of_time) - 1; $i++)
    {
        $new_array_of_time[] = '' . $array_of_time[$i] . ' - ' . $array_of_time[$i + 1];
    }

Upvotes: 2

Slamnka
Slamnka

Reputation: 112

If you are using Laravel there is a dependency for times&dates called Carbon I'm sure you've heard of.

all you have to do is importing it like that:

    use Carbon\Carbon;

Then we can see what will we do by this dependency, we just create a time then add minutes to it according to duration, that is what you want to.

    $start_time = Carbon::createFromTime(9, 0, 0);  // hours, minutes, seconds
    $end_time   = Carbon::createFromTime(21, 0, 0);

    $time       = $start_time;
    $time_slots = array();

    while($time < $end_time){
       $time = $time->addMinutes(30);
       $time_slots[] = $time;
    }

This array will have the time slots you want and you can manipulate them whatever you like.

You can also look at this links below:

Documentation: https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon

String formats for Carbon: http://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-formatting

Upvotes: 1

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