Convert seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds

Question

I would like to convert a variable $uptime which is seconds, into days, hours, minutes and seconds.

Example:

Answer 1

Here's some code that I like to use for the purpose of getting the duration between two dates. It accepts two dates and gives you a nice sentence structured reply.

This is a slightly modified version of the code found here.

 $time2) {
            $ttime = $time1;
            $time1 = $time2;
            $time2 = $ttime;
    }

    // Set up intervals and diffs arrays

    $intervals = array(
            'year',
            'month',
            'day',
            'hour',
            'minute',
            'second'
    );
    $diffs = array();

    // Loop thru all intervals

    foreach($intervals as $interval) {

            // Create temp time from time1 and interval

            $ttime = strtotime('+1 ' . $interval, $time1);

            // Set initial values

            $add = 1;
            $looped = 0;

            // Loop until temp time is smaller than time2

            while ($time2 >= $ttime) {

                    // Create new temp time from time1 and interval

                    $add++;
                    $ttime = strtotime("+" . $add . " " . $interval, $time1);
                    $looped++;
            }

            $time1 = strtotime("+" . $looped . " " . $interval, $time1);
            $diffs[$interval] = $looped;
    }

    $count = 0;
    $times = array();

    // Loop thru all diffs

    foreach($diffs as $interval => $value) {

            // Break if we have needed precission

            if ($count >= $precision) {
                    break;
            }

            // Add value and interval
            // if value is bigger than 0

            if ($value > 0) {

                    // Add s if value is not 1

                    if ($value != 1) {
                            $interval.= "s";
                    }

                    // Add value and interval to times array

                    $times[] = $value . " " . $interval;
                    $count++;
            }
    }

    if (!empty($times)) {

            // Return string with times

            return implode(", ", $times);
    }
    else {

            // Return 0 Seconds

    }

    return '0 Seconds';
}

Source: https://gist.github.com/ozh/8169202