Question

I have this project that has a set price for a certain amount of hours, I need to add more money to the overall total for each hour after 5.

My script already calculated the time by counting the hours:

Which outputs like, “15” or “9.5” or “3.5” or “7” etc.

Let’s say that 5 hours is £50, how would I add an additional £15 for every hour over the 5 hour limit.

This includes if a user going over by “.5“

(So 5.5 hours would be £65 and 6 would be £65)

Any help would be great, Thanks!

Answer 1

Subtract 5 from the number of hours, ceil() / round() the number and multiply by 15?
You ceil() if you want any part of an hour to be charged, whereas you round() if you want to charge only if the fraction of the hour is .5 or higher.

$hours = 5.5;
$amount = 50 + ceil(max(0,$hours-5)) * 15; # 65