Any PHP gurus here ?

jibbajabba

I am trying for a while now, but I have given up

Is there a way, in PHP, to use the current date and time and print / show the remaining hours to the same day every week.

Basically display a counting on a site in php (doesn't need to refresh automatically) which shows for example the remaining hours until Friday 5pm .. every week, so it automatically detects the day of the week and calculates the time automatically until the coming Friday.

All I can find so far is a way to calculate the remaining hours based on a date given in the script

$datestr="2014-03-28 17:00:00";//Your date
$date=strtotime($datestr);//Converted to a PHP date (a second count)
$diff=$date-time();//time returns current time in seconds
$days=floor($diff/(60*60*24));//seconds/minute*minutes/hour*hours/day)
$hours=round(($diff-$days*60*60*24)/(60*60));
echo "$days days $hours hours remain<br />";

vasyvasy

So you basically want to get the current date and throw in the same php script...
Could this work for you?


$datestr="2014-03-28 17:00:00";//Your date
$datestr=date("Y-m-d H:i:s");//Your current date

NotHackingYou

I don't normally work in PHP but this might help you get started

$fridayDate= date("Y-m-d",strtotime("this friday"));
$fridayTime = "17:00:00";
$fridayEnd = $fridayDate . ' ' . @fridayTime;



PHP: strtotime - Manual

jibbajabba

It's all a bit Chinese to me to be honest.

@vasyvasy: Not just the current date, but automatically calculate the time between now and upcoming weekday

@CarlSaiyed: Not sure it helps lol - barely play with PHP myself so I am not even sure what I am looking at ..

Thanks though ..

NotHackingYou

Paste in my code then do an echo on $fridayEnd

jibbajabba

CarlSaiyed wrote: »

Paste in my code then do an echo on $fridayEnd

Ah I see .. Thanks .. might be able to bastardize something ................... eventually

NotHackingYou

If the echo of $fridayDate gave you the date of this coming friday and 5:00PM then you just need to do the date diff and you have what you need.

jibbajabba

CarlSaiyed wrote: »

If the echo of $fridayDate gave you the date of this coming friday and 5:00PM then you just need to do the date diff and you have what you need.

Yepp, thanks. Getting there

jibbajabba

Great stuff, I think I got it

<?php
$fridayDate= date("Y-m-d",strtotime("this friday"));
$fridayTime = "17:00:00";
$fridayEnd = $fridayDate . ' ' . $fridayTime;
$date=strtotime($fridayEnd);
$diff=$date-time();
$days=floor($diff/(60*60*24));
$hours=floor(($diff-$days*60*60*24)/(60*60));
$minutes=floor(($diff-$days*60*60*24)/60);
echo "$days days $hours hours $minutes minutes remain<br />";

Just hitting F5 for a while see what happens

Edit: ok, once the full hour is over, it displays the whole amount of minutes, so just need to do some more calculations

NotHackingYou

Good work!

jibbajabba

Can't figure out the minutes at the moment. At the moment it seems to work only by days and hours. Must be missing something stupid

NotHackingYou

What code are you using?

jibbajabba

Trying to fix the one in post #9, although I think I know how, might check it tomorrow. Don't have access to the server at the moment. Basically $minutes displays the total of hours in minutes left. So if 2 days 23 hours are left, it would display 2 days, 23 hrs and 1380 minutes rather than 2 days, 23hrs and say, 59 minutes. I think I just calculate $days, $hours back to minutes and substract the lot from the total of seconds remaining (of you know whatI mean). I am probably just thinking too complicated.

NotHackingYou

jibbajabba wrote: »

Trying to fix the one in post #9, although I think I know how, might check it tomorrow. Don't have access to the server at the moment. Basically $minutes displays the total of hours in minutes left. So if 2 days 23 hours are left, it would display 2 days, 23 hrs and 1380 minutes rather than 2 days, 23hrs and say, 59 minutes. I think I just calculate $days, $hours back to minutes and substract the lot from the total of seconds remaining (of you know whatI mean). I am probably just thinking too complicated.

This is because you have probably already used 1380 / 60 to figure out how many hours you have.

If minutes left holds a value of 1380 the I would use $minutes = ($minutes % 60).

If $minutes was 90 then the result of 90 % 60 would be 30.