[RESOLVED] Time Conversions, Math, any Ideas?

D_seL

Hello everyone, new to the forum here. I have exhausted all my options on getting my little idea to work. So I am hoping maybe someone here can help.

First off, assume I know very little about PHP 🙂

This is the idea:
Have a Form where a user can input an elapsed time for an x amount of races (video game)
example : 2'34.765 or : 2:34.765
Input is in minutes, seconds, milliseconds.

Have the info from the Form sent to a PHP script that would add up all the elapsed times, 'echo' the total time, and then calculate the average elapsed time for the x amount of races, and 'echo' that as well.

I am hitting a brick wall in all this time conversion...ie., getting PHP to add all the minutes, seconds, and milliseconds....I think maybe it is a formatting issue as the Form passes the info to the script as example : 2'34.765 or : 2:34.765.

I did manage to get a script working, but the user would have to input their elapsed time in seconds.milliseconds, not minutes:seconds.milliseconds. Therefore the user would have to convert their times before even submitting them. NOT GOOD LOL!!

My script added up the total seconds, and converted them to minutes:
example : 105.xxx seconds would output 1.75xxxx minutes
My desired output would be 1:45.xxx

Is this even possible? Does anyone understand what I am trying to do?? LOL
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

etully

This will recognize the numbers and put them into three variables for minutes, seconds and milliseconds as long as the numbers are in one of these formats:

2'34.765
2:34.765
2'34
2:34

but it will not recognize formats without minutes such as: 34.765

$x = "2'34.765";
//$x = "2:34";

if (preg_match("/^([0-9]+)[\'\:]([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)$/",$x,$regs)) {
        $min = $regs[1];
        $sec = $regs[2];
        $msc = $regs[3];
}

if (preg_match("/^([0-9]+)[\'\:]([0-9]+)$/",$x,$regs)) {
        $min = $regs[1];
        $sec = $regs[2];
}

I suggest solving the problem by making your form ask for the times like this:

min: <input type="text" size=2 name=min> sec: <input type="text" size=2 name=sec>

D_seL

I appreciate your time and your answer, but as I said I know very little about PHP and your example is wayyyy over my head.

How would you pass the info from the form (with anywhere from 3 to 10 different times to calculate) to the script?

I use 1 field for each time being submitted (3,5,7,10 different times, hence I have 4 different forms) and the fields are named race1, race2, etc.

I'm getting a major headache, I have been up about 16hrs trying to figure this out LOL

Again, thanks for your time!!