How would you convert time to integer?
string(8) "04:04:07"
I want this as 4(hours) or much better 4.04(4hours and 4 minutes)
I tried
$yourdatetime = "04:04:07";
$timestamp = strtotime($yourdatetime);
Which results in
int(1458590887)
Use (float) and preg_replace to one-line-code conversion:
$floatval = (float) preg_replace('/^(\d+):(\d+).+/','\1.\2',$yourdatetime);
So we'll break this out. If we cast the hours as an integer and leave the minutes as a string this is a pretty simple conversion
$time = explode(':', $yourdatetime);
$hours = (int)$time[0] . '.' . $time[1];
Avoids any overhead from regex
The date function is your friend:
Given your own code above:
$yourdatetime = "04:04:07";
$timestamp = strtotime($yourdatetime);
You can then feed it into the date function:
echo 'Hours:' . date('h', $timestamp); // Hours: 04
echo 'Minutes:' . date('i', $timestamp); // Minutes: 04
echo 'Seconds:' . date('s', $timestamp); // Seconds: 07
Refer to the docs for the specific format(s) you'd like for hours - there's many options.
You could even do it in one move:
echo date('h.i', $timestamp); // 04.04
If you need it truly numeric:
echo float(date('h.i', $timestamp)); // 4.04
strtotime() returns the time in seconds since the Unix Epoch. You can then format this using date(). Documentation for date: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
To get the number of hours (4):
$timestamp = date("g",strtotime($yourdatetime));
To get the number of hours and minutes (4.03):
$timestamp = date("g.i",strtotime($yourdatetime));