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Convert Video Duration Number to Time with PHP or jQuery


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I'm loading the YouTube API by jQuery + JSON to get the video info of it's views and duration.

The duration number for example is 210 sample, but in actually time, it's 3:30. :)

The problem is, I'm not sure how to come by to converting the numbers to actually time, not even with PHP's strtotime since I believe jQuery would load too late for that. (Or I don't know at all.) :p

<div id="sidebar">
<h3>Related Videos</h3>
	<ul id="related-videos">
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query( array( 'posts_per_page' => '5', 'post_format' => 'post-format-video','category_name' => 'hip-hop') );
			while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
			 <li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink();?>">
<div class="side-thumb"><?php the_post_thumbnail('small'); ?></div>
				 <?php the_title(); ?><br />
						<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$.getJSON('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/<?php echo getYouTubeIdFromURL(get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID,'video',true)); ?&gt; ?v=2&amp;alt=jsonc',function(data,status,xhr){
$("#yt_time-&lt;?php echo get_the_ID(); ?&gt;").html(data.data.duration);
$("#yt_views-&lt;?php echo get_the_ID(); ?&gt;").html(data.data.viewCount);
});
});
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;span&gt;&lt;div class="yt"&gt;Duration: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="yt_time-&lt;?php echo get_the_ID(); ?&gt;" class="yt"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yt"&gt; | &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="yt"&gt;Views: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="yt_views-&lt;?php echo get_the_ID(); ?&gt;"class="yt"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;
				&lt;/li&gt;
			&lt;?php endwhile;wp_reset_postdata();?&gt;
	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;!-- #related-videos --&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- #sidebar --&gt;

I think this is the solution, but I don't exactly know how to use it. This code is from Stack Overflow.

&lt;?php date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime(sprintf('- %d second', round($speed * 60)))); ?&gt;

Here's a screenshot of what I'm working on. Check out the "Related Videos" on the bottom right.

post-388684-0-44370700-1349869128_thumb.

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Something along these lines...

var seconds = 0,
    multiplier = 1,
    time = '3:30';

time = time.split(':');
while (time.length)
{
  seconds += multiplier * parseInt( time.pop() );
  multiplier *= 60;
}

Or a slight variation to cut out a line

var seconds = 0,
    multiplier = 1/60,
    time = '3:30';

time = time.split(':');
while (time.length)
{
  seconds += (multiplier *= 60) * parseInt( time.pop() );
}

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Sweet! But how do I implement it with this since it appends into a DIV? This is actually in a loop on WordPress, so it won't be a specific time.

$("#yt_views-&lt;?php echo get_the_ID(); ?&gt;").html(data.data.viewCount);

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Put this somewhere in the document, along with the rest of your script:

function TimeFormatter (time) {
  this.base_time = time;
}

TimeFormatter.prototype = {

  in_seconds: function () {
	var seconds = 0,
		multiplier = 1/60;

	time = this.base_time.split(':');
	while (time.length)
	{
	  seconds += (multiplier *= 60) * parseInt( time.pop() );
	}

	return seconds;
  }

};

Then you can either use this to just print out the seconds directly

$("#yt_views-&lt;?php echo get_the_ID(); ?&gt;").html( new TimeFormatter( data.data.viewCount ).in_seconds() );

or create an instance of the object for use elsewhere:

var video_duration = new TimeFormatter( data.data.viewCount );
$("#yt_views-&lt;?php echo get_the_ID(); ?&gt;").html( video_duration.in_seconds() );

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The Console says

Uncaught TypeError: Object 1372224 has no method 'split' illigion.js:18

Uncaught TypeError: Object 19194 has no method 'split' illigion.js:18

Uncaught TypeError: Object 5789858 has no method 'split' illigion.js:18

It voids both duration & view no matter which I use or where I put it, as is.

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In that case, `data.data.viewCount` isn't a string - can you post what the contents of that are? Drop this into the script:

console.log('dataa ' + typeof data); data.data &amp;&amp; console.log('data.dataa ' + typeof data.data); data.data.viewCount &amp;&amp; console.log('data.data.viewCounta ' + typeof data.data.viewCount + ', and its value is: ' + data.data.viewCount);

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"data is a object"

"data data is a object"

"data data viewCount is a number, and its value is: 137224"

Oh, wait! I don't think viewCount was what I was thinking about. Back to duration, the error is being caused from that!

.html( new TimeFormatter( data.data.viewCount ).in_seconds() );

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Ahaha, I'm not sure why I latched on to `.viewCount` there - that's my bad. Change it to `.duration` (ie. put it on the line above, which has duration) and that should work.

$("#yt_time-&lt;?php echo get_the_ID(); ?&gt;").html( new TimeFormatter( data.data.duration ).in_seconds() );

or

var video_duration = new TimeFormatter( data.data.duration );
$("#yt_time-&lt;?php echo get_the_ID(); ?&gt;").html( video_duration.in_seconds() );

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Haha, still no bueno. :p

Here, try it without PHP and using a direct url on YouTube! :D

$(document).ready(function () {
function TimeFormatter (time) {
this.base_time = time;
}

TimeFormatter.prototype = {

in_seconds: function () {
var seconds = 0,
multiplier = 1/60;

time = this.base_time.split(':');
while (time.length)
{
seconds += (multiplier *= 60) * parseInt( time.pop() );
}

return seconds;
}

};

$.getJSON('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/bCQKlK7WhTM?v=2&alt=jsonc',function(data,status,xhr/ new code
var video_duration = new TimeFormatter( data.data.duration );
$("#yt_time").html( video_duration.in_seconds() );
// end new code
$("#yt_views").html(data.data.viewCount);
});
});

var seconds = 210,
multiplier = 1/60,
time = '3:30';

time = time.split(':');
while (time.length)
{
seconds += (multiplier *= 60) * parseInt( time.pop() );
}




&lt;div id="yt_time"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id="yt_views"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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  On 10/10/2012 at 15:22, Heartripper said:

Sorry but you want to convert 210 to 3:30 or the other way around?

210 to 3:30

Check out the API data and find "duration"

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/bCQKlK7WhTM?v=2&alt=jsonc

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  On 10/10/2012 at 15:24, MrXXIV said:

210 to 3:30

Check out the API data and find "duration"

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/bCQKlK7WhTM?v=2&alt=jsonc

Ok i van write you the code but atm i'm on my Phone :-(

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  On 10/10/2012 at 15:28, Heartripper said:

Ok i van write you the code but atm i'm on my Phone :-(

Take your time broski. :)

For the both of you. Here's where you can see and work it out! :D Everything's locked out but that page since I have it all in re-development.

http://illingspree.c...es-music-video/

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  On 10/10/2012 at 15:49, JoeC said:

O_o Apparently I read it totally wrong, my code converts the other way - 3:30 to 210. If this is still waiting for an answer when I get home, I'll sit down and write it.

Haha it's okay. Yea, I'm still in a confusion on it here. I'm definitely going to need some help on that and maybe writing commas on the view count to make it a little more readable.

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  On 10/10/2012 at 15:54, MrXXIV said:

Haha it's okay. Yea, I'm still in a confusion on it here. I'm definitely going to need some help on that and maybe writing commas on the view count to make it a little more readable.

here it is:

function formatDuration(duration){
    //We only accept numbers
    if(typeof duration != "number"){
        return;
    }

    var pad = function(n){return n &lt; 10 ? "0" + n : "" + n},
        timeComponents = [], multiplier = 3600;

    //Compute the value of each component (hours, minute, seconds)
    for(; multiplier != 0; multiplier = parseInt(multiplier / 60)){
        var component = parseInt(duration / multiplier);
        duration %= multiplier;

        //If hours equal to 0, do not add them.
        if(multiplier == 3600 &amp;&amp; component == 0){
            continue;
        }

        timeComponents.push(component);
    }

    //Pad each component (2 -&gt; 02)
    for(var i = 0; i &lt; timeComponents.length; i++){
        var padded = pad(timeComponents[i]);
        timeComponents[i] = padded;
    }

    return timeComponents.join(":");
}

tell me if you want some tweaks. It converts seconds to hours:minutes:seconds format, e.g. 51823 -> 14:23:43

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PHP version

&lt;?php

function formatDuration($duration){
	$duration = intval($duration);
	if(!$duration) return;

	$result = array();
	if($duration &gt;= 3600) {
		// Hours
		$result[] = str_pad(floor($duration / 3600),2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT);
		$duration = $duration % 3600;
	}
	$result[] = str_pad(floor($duration / 60),2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT);
	$result[] = str_pad($duration % 60,2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT);

	return implode($result, ':');
}

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  On 11/10/2012 at 21:13, Tjcool007 said:

PHP version

&lt;?php

function formatDuration($duration){
	$duration = intval($duration);
	if(!$duration) return;

	$result = array();
	if($duration &gt;= 3600) {
		// Hours
		$result[] = str_pad(floor($duration / 3600),2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT);
		$duration = $duration % 3600;
	}
	$result[] = str_pad(floor($duration / 60),2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT);
	$result[] = str_pad($duration % 60,2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT);

	return implode($result, ':');
}

Won't that only work if I had a PHP version of the jQuery JSON function?

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