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ayesh/php-timer
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High-resolution and monotonic stop-watch for all your needs. Supports timer start, pause, resume, stop, read, and minimal conversion.

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PHP Timer
=========

[](#php-timer)

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Synopsis
--------

[](#synopsis)

A helper class to calculate how long a particular task took.

This class is similar to phpunit/php-timer, but not a fork, nor mimic its functionality.

- Multiple timers by a given key.
- Read the current time elapsed without stopping the timer.
- Stop the timer, and continue from where it left (stopwatch).
- Dead simple API with only 4 static methods.
- 100% unit test coverage.
- Gets you precise time in milliseconds (with options to convert to seconds)
- Individual `Stopwatch` class for serialization and other use cases.

Prerequisites
-------------

[](#prerequisites)

- PHP 8.2 or later.

Installing
----------

[](#installing)

The simplest way would be to install using [composer](https://getcomposer.org).

```
    composer require ayesh/php-timer
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

It is pretty simple to use the timer, with all methods being static, and allowing only 4 methods.

#### Start timer

[](#start-timer)

```