get php DateInterval in total 'minutes'

Question

I am trying to get the PHP \"DateInterval\" value in \"total minutes\" value. How to get it? Seems like simple format(\"%i minutes\") not working?

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Answer 1

I wrote two functions that just calculates the totalTime from a DateInterval. Accuracy can be increased by considering years and months.

function getTotalMinutes(DateInterval $int){
    return ($int->d * 24 * 60) + ($int->h * 60) + $int->i;
}

function getTotalHours(DateInterval $int){
    return ($int->d * 24) + $int->h + $int->i / 60;
}