Data (Table name: T1):
Teacher | Subject | Day | Hour |
---|---|---|---|
Albert | Blue | Wednesday | 10:00 |
Albert | Blue | Wednesday | 12:00 |
Brandon | Red | Tuesday | 09:00 |
Brandon | Red | Tuesday | 11:00 |
Albert | Cyan | Monday | 08:30 |
Albert | Cyan | Monday | 10:30 |
Claudia | Gray | Thursday | 08:00 |
Claudia | Gray | Thursday | 10:00 |
Albert | Pink | Friday | 13:00 |
Albert | Pink | Friday | 14:30 |
Martha | Green | Wednesday | 12:00 |
Martha | Green | Wednesday | 14:00 |
Albert | Yellow | Friday | 11:00 |
Albert | Yellow | Friday | 12:30 |
As it can be seen, there is a record for the starting hour of a Subject and another for the finishing time of the same Subject (data comes like that). What I intend to know is the weekly amount of hours dedicated to classes by a specific teacher, let's say for "Albert".
Query:
$result = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT SUBTIME(max(Hour), min(Hour)) AS TeachTime, Subject FROM T1 WHERE Teachers LIKE '%Albert%' GROUP BY Subject ORDER BY Subject ASC") or die(mysqli_error($link));
if (mysqli_num_rows($result)!==0) {
echo "Weekly teaching time: ";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
echo $row['TeachTime']." Hrs. ";
}
}
Output:
Weekly teaching time: 02:00 Hrs. 02:00 Hrs. 01:30 Hrs. 01:30 Hrs.
Desired output:
Weekly teaching time: 07:00 Hrs.
As you can see, I don't know how to perform the addition of every resulting amount of hours. How can I achieve that?
I have also tried GROUP BY Teachers
but results are weird... not the addition result.
This is the code I end up using thanks to the guidance of Bill Karwin and some more research:
$result = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT *,
SEC_TO_TIME(SUM(TIME_TO_SEC(WeekTime))) AS ProfTime FROM
(SELECT *,
SUBTIME(max(Hour), min(Hour)) AS WeekTime FROM T1
WHERE Teacher LIKE '%Albert%' GROUP BY Teacher, Subject) AS C")
or die(mysqli_error($link));
if (mysqli_num_rows($result)!==0) {
echo "Weekly teaching time: ";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
echo date('H:i', strtotime($row['ProfTime']))." Hrs. <br>";
}}
Bill's answer had made me realize that you can query results from an embedded query, e.g.:
Query2 over results of (Query1 over data)
Then, as results of query1 were in time format (HH:MM), I should get a total of the addition of all the instances retrieved, i.e., 01:00 + 02:00 + 01:30 = 04:30
The addition has to be performed in query2 and I have found on tutorialspoint that the query SELECT SEC_TO_TIME(SUM(TIME_TO_SEC(Time))) AS TotalTime
does that.
Finally, as the result comes in the the format HH:MM:SS and I only need HH:MM I applied a php convertion to the output: date('H:i', strtotime($row['TotalTime']))
.