Formats the interval

Descrierea

public string DateInterval::format ( string $format )

Formats the interval.

Parametri

format

**The following characters are recognized in the `format` parameter string. Each format character must be prefixed by a percent sign (%).**
`format` character	Description	Example values
%	Literal %	%
Y	Years, numeric, at least 2 digits with leading 0	01, 03
y	Years, numeric	1, 3
M	Months, numeric, at least 2 digits with leading 0	01, 03, 12
m	Months, numeric	1, 3, 12
D	Days, numeric, at least 2 digits with leading 0	01, 03, 31
d	Days, numeric	1, 3, 31
a	Total number of days as a result of a DateTime::diff() or (unknown) otherwise	4, 18, 8123
H	Hours, numeric, at least 2 digits with leading 0	01, 03, 23
h	Hours, numeric	1, 3, 23
I	Minutes, numeric, at least 2 digits with leading 0	01, 03, 59
i	Minutes, numeric	1, 3, 59
S	Seconds, numeric, at least 2 digits with leading 0	01, 03, 57
s	Seconds, numeric	1, 3, 57
R	Sign "-" when negative, "+" when positive	-, +
r	Sign "-" when negative, empty when positive	-,

Valorile întoarse

Returns the formatted interval.

Note

Notă:
The DateInterval::format() method does not recalculate carry over points in time strings nor in date segments. This is expected because it is not possible to overflow values like "32 days" which could be interpreted as anything from "1 month and 4 days" to "1 month and 1 day".

Exemple

Example #1 DateInterval example


<?php

$interval = new DateInterval('P2Y4DT6H8M');
echo $interval->format('%d days');

?>

Exemplul de mai sus va afișa:

4 days

Example #2 DateInterval and carry over points


<?php

$interval = new DateInterval('P32D');
echo $interval->format('%d days');

?>

Exemplul de mai sus va afișa:

32 days

Example #3 DateInterval and DateTime::diff() with the %a and %d modifiers


<?php

$january = new DateTime('2010-01-01');
$february = new DateTime('2010-02-01');
$interval = $february->diff($january);

// %a will output the total number of days.
echo $interval->format('%a total days')."\n";

// While %d will only output the number of days not already covered by the
// month.
echo $interval->format('%m month, %d days');

?>

Exemplul de mai sus va afișa:

31 total days
1 month, 0 days