Formatting seconds to a readable format

Question

I know about the date and gmdate functions, but my needs are different in this case.

I have a number of seconds which I need to convert to something like:

A days B hours C minutes D seconds

I don't know how to format my seconds like this.

Any help would be appreciated.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8273804/convert-seconds-into-days-hours-minutes-seconds-in-php — The Humble Rat, Oct 30 '13 at 10:52
There are detailed examples in the documentation http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php — everconfusedGuy, Oct 30 '13 at 10:54

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 30 '13 at 10:57

Just use floor and the values 86400 (seconds in a day - 60 * 60 * 24), 3600 (seconds in an hour - 60 * 60) and 60 (seconds in a minute):

<?php
    function secondsToTime($seconds) {
        $days = floor($seconds / 86400);
        $seconds -= ($days * 86400);

        $hours = floor($seconds / 3600);
        $seconds -= ($hours * 3600);

        $minutes = floor($seconds / 60);
        $seconds -= ($minutes * 60);

        $values = array(
            'day'    => $days,
            'hour'   => $hours,
            'minute' => $minutes,
            'second' => $seconds
        );

        $parts = array();

        foreach ($values as $text => $value) {
            if ($value > 0) {
                $parts[] = $value . ' ' . $text . ($value > 1 ? 's' : '');
            }
        }

        return implode(' ', $parts);
    }

    var_dump(secondsToTime(1234561));
    //string(36) "14 days 6 hours 56 minutes 1 second"
?>

DEMO

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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This can be achieved with Date and Time extension:

Use example:

echo secondsToTime(1234563);
# 14 days, 6 hours, 56 minutes and 3 seconds

Link to the function + Demo.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Oct 30 '13 at 11:17

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Formatting seconds to a readable format

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Use example: