Generate Intervals of Time With the Laravel Hours Helper

Generate Intervals of Time With the Laravel Hours Helper

With the Laravel Hours Helper package, you can create a collection of dates and/of times with a specific interval (in minutes) for a particular period.

 1use Facades\Label84\HoursHelper\HoursHelper;
 2 
 3$hours = HoursHelper::create('08:00', '09:30', 30);
 4/*
 5=> Illuminate\Support\Collection {#3529
 6       all: [
 7           "08:00",
 8           "08:30",
 9           "09:00",
10           "09:30",
11       ],
12   }
13*/

This helper could be useful in generating dropdown selections for a calendar meeting invite or scheduling the duration of an event. This helper also allows you to define the date formatting for each interval of time:

 1$hours = HoursHelper::create('11:00', '13:00', 60, 'g:i A');
 2/*
 3Illuminate\Support\Collection {#3528
 4    all: [
 5        "11:00 AM",
 6        "12:00 PM",
 7        "1:00 PM",
 8    ],
 9}
10*/

Further, this helper can deal with intervals past midnight (i.e., the next day) and over multiple days:

 1HoursHelper::create(
 2    '2021-01-01 22:00',
 3    '2021-01-03 13:00',
 4    60,
 5    'Y-m-d H:i'
 6);
 7/*
 8Illuminate\Support\Collection {#3566
 9    all: [
10        "2021-01-01 22:00",
11        "2021-01-01 23:00",
12        "2021-01-02 00:00",
13        "2021-01-02 01:00",
14        "2021-01-02 02:00",
15        ...
16    ]
17}
18*/

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.

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