[RESOLVED] Time Remaining

djdaz

I've searched the forums for a solution to this problem but can't find one that matches my needs.

I'm wanting a time remaining counter to show when a item placed on a market ends (similar to ebay).

I've set when the item ends as a future timestamp, now i need to calculate how many days, hours and minutes are left until that time, i can't figure it out.

Any help appreciated, even if its a slap on the wrist and a link to a previous thread with a solution 😃

bpat1434

Generate timestamp of expiration:
```
$then = strtotime('07/30/2099');
```
Generate current timestamp:
```
$now = time();
```
Calculate the difference:
```
$diff = $then - $now;
```

Now, just do the math to compute the total number of weeks / days / hours / minutes / seconds are left:

$weeks = floor($diff / (60*60*24*7));
$diff = $diff - ($weeks * (60*60*24*7));

$days = floor($diff / (60*60*24));
$diff = $diff - ($days * (60*60*24));

$hours = floor($diff / (60*60));
$diff = $diff - ($hours * (60*60));

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

$secs = $diff;

Display the results as you please:

$out = '';
if($weeks > 0)
    $out .= $weeks . ' week(s), ';
if($days > 0)
    $out .= $days . ' day(s), ';
if($hours > 0)
    $out .= $hours . ' hour(s), ';
if($minutes > 0)
    $out .= $minutes . ' minute(s), ';
if($secs > 0)
    $out .= $secs . ' second(s) ';
$out .= 'left';

echo $out;

Obviously there are other ways to format the time, but that's kinda the quickest I could think of.

greenie2600

Beware of daylight savings time (and, depending on exactly what you're doing, possibly leap years).

djdaz

Thanks guys! Much appreciated.

Its going to be used on an ebay style market, but things would only be allowed on the market for a maximum of 5 days. Hopefully DST and leap years shouldn't effect that.

Thanks again