Elapsed microtime counter

Counts the elapsed seconds when doing some process.

Snippet information

Author:
Jonas John

License:
Public Domain

Language:
PHP

Created:
05/26/2006

Updated:
05/26/2006

Tags:
debug, time functions

// mt_get: returns the current microtime
function mt_get(){
    global $mt_time;
    list($usec, $sec) = explode(" ", microtime());
    return ((float)$usec + (float)$sec);
}
 
// mt_start: starts the microtime counter
function mt_start(){
    global $mt_time; $mt_time = mt_get();
}
 
// mt_end: calculates the elapsed time
function mt_end($len=4){
    global $mt_time;
    $time_end = mt_get();
    return round($time_end - $mt_time, $len);
}

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// start timer:
mt_start();
 
 
// put a long operation or 
// something similar in here:
for ($x=0; $x < 5000; $x++){
    print ($x % 2) ? '<!-- foo -->' : '';
}
 
 
// calculate elapsed time
$time = mt_end();
 
 
print "<br/><br/>The page needed ".$time." seconds to load.";

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