Question

How can I optimize this:

$enddatetime = date("YmdHis", strtotime(date("YmdHis", strtotime($session_date.' '.$session_time)) . " + ".$session_duration." minutes"));

eg values:

$session_date 2011-01-31
$session_time 19:30:00
$session_duration 100

Answer 1

Ok, so basically you’re taking a cow, turning it into hamburger, sprinkling on a little bit of salt, then gluing the salted hamburger back into a cow yet again.

Why the repeated roundtrips through date->strtotime->date, etc…? That’s highly inefficient. PHP’s native date/time format is a Unix-style timestamp – seconds since Jan 1/1970.

$timeval = strtotime($session_date . ' ' . $session_time);
$adjusted_timeval = $timeval + ($session_duration * 60);
$fancy_datetime = date("YmdHis", $adjusted_timeval);