Convert seconds to total time in PHP

: Joel Lipman; Personal Home Page; 31 January 2012; Hits: 5665

What?
This is intended for activity/session durations and although I usually get MySQL to do the date/time calculations, there are times when we have to do with PHP. This is the shortest way I know to properly convert seconds into total hours, minutes and seconds (taking into account regional settings and without using a date function).

How?

$total_time =intval(intval($total_seconds)/ 3600).":";
$total_time.=str_pad(intval(($total_seconds/60)%60),2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT).":";
$total_time.=str_pad(intval($total_seconds%60),2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT);

// yields
// 82800  = 23:00:00
// 108000 = 30:00:00

$total_time =intval(intval($total_seconds)/ 3600).":";
$total_time.=str_pad(intval(($total_seconds/60)%60),2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT).":";
$total_time.=str_pad(intval($total_seconds%60),2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT);
// yields
// 82800 = 23:00:00
// 108000 = 30:00:00

On one line:

$total_time=intval(intval($total_seconds)/ 3600).":".str_pad(intval(($total_seconds/60)%60),2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT).":".str_pad(intval($total_seconds%60),2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT);

$total_time=intval(intval($total_seconds)/ 3600).":".str_pad(intval(($total_seconds/60)%60),2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT).":".str_pad(intval($total_seconds%60),2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT);

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