如何将时间“持续时间”从字符串值转换为整数？

Question

I have a bunch of string values that represent an interval in time like this:

'1 hour' , '1.5 hours' , '30 minutes' , etc...

I'd like to convert all of these values into a count of minutes, so the above would become respectively:

60 , 90 , 30

I've been messing around with Carbon\\Carbon and PHP's strtotime() function, but I can't figure out how I'd do this. It's probably really simple?

Answer 1

$str = '1 hour';
$int1 = strtotime("+".$str)- strtotime("now");

Here $int1 will return time in seconds. here it will return 3600 . And this wont handle fractions like 1.5 hours etc.