PHP time period "7 days, 18:50:19"

Question

What is the best way to convert this time period to seconds in php? "7 days, 18:50:19" ~> "67000"

Why 67,000? A single day has 86,400 seconds already. Did you lose one order of magnitude here …? — misorude, Nov 23 '18 at 15:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '18 at 16:42

strtotime can parse a "period" format like that natively, the only key point is to also pass in 0 as the second parameter so that the result is relative to the unix epoch rather than the current time:

$seconds = strtotime('7 days 18:50:19', 0);
echo $seconds;

672619

snn1024a · Answer 2 · 2018-11-23T17:23:51.007

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Can we do better then this?

$interval = "7 days, 18:50:19";
$interval = preg_replace("/[a-z A-Z]/", "", $interval);
$int = preg_split( "/(,|:)/", $interval);
$inter = ($int[0]*86400) + ($int[1]*3600) + ($int[2]*60) + ($int[3]);
var_dump($inter);

edited Nov 23 '18 at 17:23

answered Nov 23 '18 at 17:05

snn1024a

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