Question

I am using opencart and want to display text (product ending time) like this:
end in 09 dys 12 hours 30 Mins

I have an ends_date from the table but now I want to calculate the time difference between ends_date and the server time and display in the above format, in PHP or jQuery.

Thanks!

Answer 1

$current_time = time();
$end_time = strtotime($ends_date); //$ends_date is from your table
$time_diff = $end_time - $current_time;

From there you have $time_diff that represents the number of seconds till it’s over. Do some / 60 for minutes and then hours and then / 24 for days. Make sure you only do that if $time_diff > 0! Math. It works. 🙂