How do i convert the following hours in to minutes? [duplicate] - php

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$time_frame = floor(abs((strtotime($notification['note_date'])-strtotime(date("Y-m-d H:i:s")))/60/60));
if($time_frame>24){
$time_frame = floor($time_frame/24);
if($time_frame>1){
$time_frame = $time_frame." days ago";
} else{
$time_frame = $time_frame." day ago";
}
} else if($time_frame>1) {
$time_frame = $time_frame." hours ago";
} else if($time_frame==1) {
$time_frame = $time_frame." hour ago";
} else{
$time_frame = "1 hour ago"; //I want to break this hour in to minutes
}
How do i break that hour in to display in to minutes, last else statement.

Answer 1

I recommend dealing with seconds/timestamps or date-time objects instead - this would be a better and more dynamic approach in my opinion. Perhaps have a look at this question instead Converting timestamp to time ago in PHP e.g 1 day ago, 2 days ago...
That said, if you want to do it with your current approach, you can multiply your variable by 60 (as there is 60 minutes in an hour), such as
$time_frame = 60*$timeframe;
Examples,
If $timeframe is 1, then you have exactly one hour. 60min * 1 = 60 minutes.
If $timeframe is 0.5, that would be half an hour. 60min * 0.5 = 30 minutes.
If $timeframe is 0.25, means that 15 minutes have passed, and 60min * 0.25 = 15 minutes.
You might want to round that number to your liking, so that you will not get output such as 1.43 minutes left. Also note that floating point numbers may not be exactly accurate, hence my recommendation of using datetime objects or timestamps instead.

Answer 2

If you use the DateTime class, you can use the diff() method so you don't have to mess with all the calculating. diff() returns a DateInterval which has public properties you can use to determine the appropriate message.
$interval = date_create($notification['note_date'])->diff(new DateTime);
if ($interval->days > 1) {
$time_frame = "{$interval->days} days";
} elseif ($interval->days == 1) {
$time_frame = "1 day";
} elseif ($interval->h > 1) {
$time_frame = "{$interval->h} hours";
} elseif ($interval->h == 1) {
$time_frame = "1 hour";
} elseif ($interval->i > 1) {
$time_frame = "{$interval->i} minutes";
} elseif ($interval->i == 1) {
$time_frame = "1 minute";
} else {
$time_frame = "Less than 1 minute";
}
echo "{$time_frame} ago";

Answer 3

You can actually USE that string! :-D
$x = new DateTime('1 hour ago'); // done at 17:17
echo $x->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); // outputs 2018-10-23 16:17:12
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