How to display range of hours

Question

I have a database table storing opening hours of a restaurant as a time range in TIME format. Eg if the restaurant\'s opening hours are \'9am-5pm\', there will be 2 columns

Answer 1

ON my current project I had to loop trough the 24 hours of the day ... and wanted them to be displayed in a certain format.

$interval = new DateInterval('PT1H'); // creating the interval for 1hour
$date = new DateTime();    
$end = clone($date);
$hoursRange = new DatePeriod($date, $interval ,$end->modify("+24 hours"));

And then all I had was to iterate trough the hoursRange values using a foreach.

foreach ($hoursRange as $key => $value)
{
    echo $value->format('ga');
}

Answer 2

can anyone point me in the right direction?

Of course, here is everything you will need:

• http://php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php
• http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.while.php
• 30 m = 1800 s
• http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.arithmetic.php
• http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Answer 3

$start = strtotime('6:00am');
$end = strtotime('09:00am');
$range = array();
while ($start !== $end)
{
    $start = strtotime('+30 minutes',$start);
    $range[] = date('h:ia', $start);
}
print_r($range);