how to display - 03d 01h 10m in php?

Question

I am using timestamps and need to print the date in the format 03d 01h 10m. I could not do it using the date() formatting. How can I do it so that after the days I have a d, after the hours m, and after the minutes m?

Answer 1

Just escape the literal characters you want with a backslash:

date('\h\e\l\l\o'); // just echoes hello

If you escape a character that didn't need escaping, it doesn't matter - nothing bad worth noting happens.

Answer 2

Manual: Example #2 Escaping characters in date():

<?php
// prints something like: Wednesday the 15th
echo date('l \t\h\e jS');
?>

Answer 3

Like this: echo date ("d\d. H\h. i\m.");

Answer 4

Try using the DateTime class' diff method. See the examples over on php.net.