DateInterval::format

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7)

DateInterval::formatFormats the interval

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public DateInterval::format ( string $format ) : string

Formats the interval.

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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
F Microseconds, numeric, at least 6 digits with leading 0 007701, 052738, 428291
f Microseconds, numeric 7701, 52738, 428291
R Sign "-" when negative, "+" when positive -, +
r Sign "-" when negative, empty when positive -,

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Returns the formatted interval.

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Note:

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".

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7.1.0 The F and f format characters were added.

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Example #1 DateInterval example

<?php

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

?>

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4 days

Example #2 DateInterval and carry over points

<?php

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

?>

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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');

?>

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31 total days
1 month, 0 days

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