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I have dates in the format Y-M-D hour-minute-second 2013-09-03 12:10:28, but I need the unixtimestamp.
PHP has a slough of functions for transforming dates and times, but apprently none that can accept a date and its format and convert it into unixtime. The closest function I found was mktime(), but I would need to parse my current date into each of its components. Is there an easier way?
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strtotime('2013-09-03 12:10:28');
<?php
$str = '2013-09-03 12:10:28';
echo strtotime($str);
1378228228
You may try strtotime
echo strtotime('2013-09-03 12:10:28'); // 1378210228
<?php
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', '2013-09-03 12:10:28');
echo $date->getTimestamp();
IMHO it is better not to use strtotime() because it tries to guess a time format. I do not like any "magic" in programming.