Building a list of hours with PHP
Have you ever been creating a form, and needed to know a time? A dropdown is the best way to get a time itself, IMO (or perhaps a masked input box).
When you see that you need to create times from, say, 8:00am to 4:00pm, using code springs to mind to make life easier.
I have crafted a small function to help create an array of times for PHP.
function hoursRange($lower = 0, $upper = 23, $step = 1, $format = NULL) {
if ($format === NULL) {
$format = 'g:ia'; // 9:30pm
}
$times = array();
foreach(range($lower, $upper, $step) as $increment) {
$increment = number_format($increment, 2);
list($hour, $minutes) = explode('.', $increment);
$date = new DateTime($hour . ':' . $minutes * .6);
$times[(string) $increment] = $date->format($format);
}
return $times;
}I wrote something more bloated earlier today, but decided to spend some real time on it tonight. I'm pretty happy with it. I would like to know however if there was a better way of turning 0.5 into 30 though.
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