[TYPO3-dev] tranforming variables to time(int(11)) values

[Christian Hensel]

Hi List,

i have created a little frontend extension for a page, with whom you could
easily insert a new cal event entry.
But Im having little Problems with start_time and end_time. because i don't
really know how to transform the entered time like
13:46 --> into that numberstring that is expected to be stored in the db.
Anyone got a hint for me how to
transform it to --> numberstring
and to re transform from numberstring --> to humanreadable time.

i thought i got it working by:
   list($endhour, $endminute) = explode(":", $this->piVars['endtime']);
   $tempendtime = ''.$endhour.'.'.$endminute.'';
   $starttime =  $tempstarttime * 60 * 60;

but does only work for full times like 13:00 and 14:00.
14:45 will be wrong.
So anyone got a hint for me?

Think that might be a dummy question, but i don't really know at the moment

regards Christian