John Davidson

Message:

i'm trying to convert a duration raw text to actual timestamp, but the format doesn't has any leading zeros and without that DateTime won't work, i don't really know how to split the values from the string, also i could have hours or not depending on the string itself, so it could be like
1:59 or 1:30:49, here's my actual attempt

$time = "1:59";    

$duration_not_raw = DateTime::createFromFormat('H:i:s', $time);



$time2 = "1:51:59";

$duration_not_raw2 = DateTime::createFromFormat('H:i:s', $time2); 

But obviously it breaks my whole page, if i would be able to split the values i'd do like

if (value) < 10 

{

    "0"..value

}

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My Answer:
"1:59";

// Split the string by colon
$timeArray = explode(":", $time);

// Check the length of the array to determine if hours are present
if (count($timeArray) == 2) {
$hours = 0;
$minutes = $timeArray[0];
$seconds = $timeArray[1];
} elseif (count($timeArray) == 3) {
$hours = $timeArray[0];
$minutes = $timeArray[1];
$seconds = $timeArray[2];
}

// Create a DateTime object with the values
$timestamp = new DateTime();
$timestamp->setTime($hours, $minutes, $seconds);

echo $timestamp->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');