11 Responses to “How to convert Minutes to Hours With PHP”

1. André Medeiros Said on Mar 18, 2008 :

   You can do it in far less lines.

   function convertMinutes2Hours($minutes) {
   $minutes = round($minutes); // assume full minutes
   $hours = floor($minutes / 60);
   $minutes = $minutes - ($hours * 60);
   return str_repeat(’0′, 2 - strlen($hours)) . $hours . ‘:’ . str_repeat(’0′, 2 - strlen($minutes)) . $minutes;
   }

2. André Medeiros Said on Mar 19, 2008 :

   One-liner (if you’re not planning on using more than 24 hours):

   function convertMinutes2Hours($minutes) { return date(”G:i”, abs(round((int)$minutes))*60); }

3. Evan Wired Said on Mar 26, 2008 :

   If $min is an integer, it is even simpler:

   $hours = sprintf(”%d:%02d”, abs((int)($min/60)), abs((int)($min%60)));

   The original code is a DailyWTF candidate.

4. Admin Said on Mar 26, 2008 :

   Thanks for all the comments.
   I like your ideas and i will definitely use them

5. Evan Wired Said on Mar 26, 2008 :

   Don’t use what I posted. Got too silly with the parens. Lesson: Always take more than 10 seconds to write your code

   $hours = sprintf(”%d:%02d”, abs((int)$min/60), abs((int)$min%60));

6. stratos Said on Jun 2, 2008 :

   that str_repeat function is nice but i think date is the most appropriate function i guess…

7. Dennis Said on Jul 5, 2008 :

   Sweet, thanks all. I’ve converted this to a tad longer, but more usable, returned text.

   function ConvertMinutes2Hours($Min) {
   $iHours = Floor($Min / 60);
   $Minutes = ($Min - ($iHours * 60)) / 100;
   $tHours = $iHours + $Minutes;
   if ($Minutes < 0){
   $tHours = $tHours * (-1);
   }
   $aHours = explode(”.”, $tHours);
   $iHours = $aHours[0];
   if (empty($aHours[1])) {
   $aHours[1] = “00″;
   }
   $Minutes = $aHours[1];
   if (strlen($Minutes) < 2) {
   $Minutes = $Minutes .”0″;
   }
   if ($iHours==0) {$tHours = $Minutes.’ minutes’;}
   else if ($iHours==1) {$tHours = $iHours.” hour and “.$Minutes.’ minutes’;}
   else {$tHours = $iHours.” hours and “.$Minutes.’ minutes’;}
   return $tHours;
   }

8. Warz Said on Oct 11, 2008 :

   mmh you could use mktime
   $sec = 500;
   date(’H:i:s’,mktime(0,0,$sec,0,0,0));

9. André Medeiros Said on Oct 14, 2008 :

   @Wars

   Creative use of the mktime function. Right on!

10. Luke H Said on Apr 6, 2009 :

    Warz. that one line use of mktime to do this is just gorgeous. Thanks!

11. Francis Said on Aug 2, 2009 :

    I’ve changed the initial function so it displays days too.

    function ActiveMinutesToHours($Minutes)
    {
    if ($Minutes < 0)
    {
    $Min = Abs($Minutes);
    }
    else
    {
    $Min = $Minutes;
    }
    $iHours = Floor($Min / 60);
    $Minutes = ($Min - ($iHours * 60)) / 100;
    $tHours = $iHours + $Minutes;
    if ($Minutes < 0)
    {
    $tHours = $tHours * (-1);
    }
    $aHours = explode(”.”, $tHours);
    $iHours = $aHours[0];
    if (empty($aHours[1]))
    {
    $aHours[1] = “00″;
    }
    $Minutes = $aHours[1];
    if (strlen($Minutes) 24)
    {
    $iDays = $iHours/24;
    if($iDays == 1)
    $iDays .= ” day, “;
    else
    $iDays .= ” days, “;
    }
    $tHours = $iDays . $iHours .” hours and “. $Minutes . “minutes.”;
    return $tHours;
    }