When someone does that, it means the execution time between $t1 and $t2... Att, Igor Escobar systems analyst & interface designer www . igorescobar . com On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Richard Heyes <richard@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/3/30 Andrew Williams <andrew4williams@xxxxxxxxx>: > > what does time(); > > > > $t1 = time(); > > > > { > > > > do something > > } > > $t2 = time(); > > > > $end_time = $t2 - $t1; > > echo $end_time; > > > > what does $end_time represent? > > $end_time is not a great name for it: it's the time (number of > seconds) it took to go from $t1 to $t2. $duration might be better. > > > how do you determine the next 5 mins? > > Eh? time() + 300 is five minutes from now. > > -- > Richard Heyes > > HTML5 Canvas graphing for Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari: > http://www.rgraph.net (Updated March 14th) > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >