elapsed time

[Anon]

Hi,

I need to do a timer in php that shows elapsed time - from the time the page loads into the users browser to the time the user clicks a submit button.

To get $elapsed I was thinking timestamp minus time of submit...

The elapsed time need to be emailed when user clicks submit button so I need

echo "<input type='hidden' name='elapsed' value='elapsed'>";

Is this possible using php or do I need javascript?

Thanks, Hunter

[Anon]

<?
if (!isset ($submit))
{
$before = time ();
echo '
<form action="' . $PHP_SELF . '" method="post">
name :<input type="text" name="name">
<input type="hidden" name="before" value="' . $before . '">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>
';
}

if (isset ($submit))
{
$after = time ();
$elapsed = $after - $before;
echo "Hey $name, it took you $elapsed seconds to remember your own name.";
}
?>

[Anon]

Thanks!!!!!!

That worked perfectly. Now how to transform $elapsed into hours:minutes:seconds ?

[Anon]

use simply math:
$elasped is the # of seconds
$elasped / 60 is the # of minutes
$elasped / 60 / 60 is the # of hours

[Anon]

Hello,

Please let me know what I'm doing wrong:

{
$after = time ();
$elapsed = $after - $before;
$minutes = $elapsed / 60;
$hours = $elapsed / 60 / 60;
$testtime = "$hours:$minutes:$elapsed";
echo "Hey $name, it took you $elapsed seconds to remember your own name.";
}

Display:

Time: 0.0013888888888889:0.083333333333333:5