Is there a reason you insist on using a CHAR field, instead of a TIME field, which would make this all easier and allow you to use the multitude of MySQL Date and Time Functions in your query... ???
---John Holmes... > -----Original Message----- > From: juaid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] convertion from string to time & substracting > > Hi, > > sorry if maybe this is a bit dumb question, but I'm a begginer with php... > > I got a mysql database, where two of the fields of a table record times as > CHAR(8) in the format hh:mm:ss > > I want to take this two times and get the difference between them in > seconds, for example 12:01:30 - 12:00:00 = 90 > I looked up at the doc in the php.net website and couldn't get on how to > do > this... should I use the strtotime function? > > anyone has donde something like this, or knows what functions could help > me > to do this? > > Thanks in advance, > > juaid > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
