How can I convert 08 to integer in PHP?

I need to compute the difference between two times... example, I have two data from my database, time1 = 08:00:00 and time2 = 17:00 and I need to get hour1 = 08: minute1 = 00, and second1:00... my issue is i need to convert 08 to integer 8 so that there will be no problem with my computation... any help is highy appreciated... thanks...

Anwered 2010-03-07 08:05:28 by Girish M

See the idate function - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.idate.php

// First convert your time1 into a proper format using 'strtotime' function
$time1_date = strtotime('08:00:00');
// Then get the hour out of it
$time1_hour = idate('h', $time1_date);

Now $time1_hour should be integer 8 for you.