PHP Convert Minutes+Seconds to Seconds

Question

Currently, I have the following time format like the following:

0m12.345s
2m34.567s

I put them in variable $time. How do I convert the variable to seconds only in PHP, like 12.345 for the first one, and 154.567 for the second one?

you'd first parse the amount of minutes and amount of seconds to separate variables, then multiple minutes by 60 and finish with adding the numbers together. — eis, Feb 22 '14 at 09:59

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 22 '14 at 10:02

You can do it like this,

//Exploding time string on 'm' this way we have an array 
//with minutes at the 0 index and seconds at the 1 index
//substr function is used to remove the last s from your initial time string
$time_array=explode('m', substr($time, 0, -1));
//Calculating 
$time=($time_array[0]*60)+$time_array[1];

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 22 '14 at 10:05

<?php
    $time="2m34.567s";
    $split=explode('m',$time);
//   print_r($split[0]);
    $split2=explode('s',$split[1]);

$sec= seconds_from_time($split[0])+$split2[0];
echo $sec;
function seconds_from_time($time) {

        return $time*60;
    }

?>

Demo here http://phpfiddle.org/main/code/gdf-3tj

PHP Convert Minutes+Seconds to Seconds

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