Round minute down to nearest quarter hour

I need to round times down to the nearest quarter hour in PHP. The times are being pulled from a MySQL database from a datetime column and formatted like 2010-03-18 10:50:00.

Example:

• 10:50 needs to be 10:45
• 1:12 needs to be 1:00
• 3:28 needs to be 3:15
• etc.

I’m assuming floor() is involved but not sure how to go about it.

Thanks

Answer

Your full function would be something like this…

function roundToQuarterHour($timestring) {
    $minutes = date('i', strtotime($timestring));
    return $minutes - ($minutes % 15);
}