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How to format number of seconds as duration with PHP
PHP posted 11 months ago by christian
A very sophisticated algorithm that will display the length of, for example, a video as 12:01:30.
1 function duration($seconds_count) 2 { 3 $delimiter = ':'; 4 $seconds = $seconds_count % 60; 5 $minutes = floor($seconds_count/60); 6 $hours = floor($seconds_count/3600); 7 8 $seconds = str_pad($seconds, 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT); 9 $minutes = str_pad($minutes, 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT).$delimiter; 10 11 if($hours > 0) 12 { 13 $hours = str_pad($hours, 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT).$delimiter; 14 } 15 else 16 { 17 $hours = ''; 18 } 19 20 return "$hours$minutes$seconds"; 21 }