Add 30 seconds to the time with PHP

Question

How can I add 30 seconds to this time?

$time = date("m/d/Y h:i:s a", time());

I wasn't sure how to do it because it is showing lots of different units of time, when I only want to add 30 seconds.

Answer 1

$time = date("m/d/Y h:i:s a", time() + 30);

Answer 2

If you're using php 5.3+, check out the DateTime::add operations or modify, really much easier than this.

For example:

$startTime = new DateTime("09:00:00");
$endTime = new DateTime("19:00:00");


while($startTime < $endTime) {

$startTime->modify('+30 minutes'); // can be seconds, hours.. etc

echo $startTime->format('H:i:s')."<br>";
break;
}

Answer 3

What about using strtotime? The code would then be:

strtotime( '+30 second' );