Subtracting using base 8 instead of the normal base 10!! Pls Help

[Forri]

Hi all

I know this is not exactly a PHP problem but since there is much experience maybe u can help...

I have a system which calculates leave days and hours based on a normal day of 8 hrs!

I would like to base it immediatly to 8, if not i have to stay checking the everytime if the value is equal (which makes it a 0) or greater then 8 (which will result in reminder of the Value divided by 8)

It gets too complicated....

is there a work around to this type of problem...?

Thanks
Nick

 

[ingresman]

You could look at the functions base_convert(), octdec() and decoct()