Question

I am having an add/edit form to update and add to database, and I was not sure what the best way is to input TIME type (HH:MM:SS). Should I use multiple html text inputs for HH, MM, SS?
if so, is there a function that prepares the string for database input?

Basically what I’m trying to input is how many hours, minutes, seconds a specific task took to finish.

Can anyone point me in the right direction here?

I’m designing a website using Codeigniter (PHP).

Thanks

Let me go ahead and clarify what needs to happen a bit more…
The user is required to enter data specific to sports more in particular to a players minutes and seconds played. I’m thinking of maybe simplifying it to only minutes. Perhaps this way input is only 1 thing. Then again my question is, what method would work to convert this “minute number” to the correct MYSQL TIME format?

Answer 1

I have searched for some alternatives and solutions and I came up with this:

$min = 60;
$time[] = floor($min/60);
$time[] = $min%60;

And I used the following to convert to MySQL TIME format

INSERT INTO table (min) VALUES (MAKETIME($time[0], $time[1], 0))