I've been going mad over this, so maybe someone here can help me! I wrote a script to track my running progress (can check it out here) and I want to have it automatically calculate what my average time per mile is.

I had it calculating so the format would be along the lines of 8.50 minutes, but that is not really proper time. How can I go about formatting it so it would be 8:30, or 8m 30s? I've searched around and haven't been able to find anything that looked like a proper solution.

probably not the most elegant solution, but here's how i'd do it:

function slightlyBetterTime($time) { // awesome function
$time = explode(".", $time); // separate out the minutes and seconds
$mins = $time[0]; // the minutes is the first element in the array
$secs = round($time[1] * 0.6); // fraction of a minute is the second element,
// multiply by 60/100 to convert it to seconds
return "$mins:$secs"; // and return
}
echo slightlyBetterTime("8.50"); // take it for a test drive

I have an easier n simpler solution :)

list( $mins, $secs ) = sscanf( $time, "%d.%d" ); // getting ur mins and secs easy ...
echo "{$mins}:{$secs}";
echo "{$mins}m {$secs}s";