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datetime to timestamp [duplicate]

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Inverse date function? - not strtotime
Is it possible to get UNIX time from such date 2011-02-27 02:04:46?

hello,

we have this function to convert a timestamp to datetime:

$datetime = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $timestamp); 

is there a function to do the opposite?

datetime to timestamp.

Thanks

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medk Avatar asked Jun 03 '11 09:06

medk


1 Answers

$timestamp = strtotime($datetime); 

Or if you're confident of the format, split up the string with explode() or even substr and pass the necessary parts into the mktime function.

Be aware that strtotime can sometimes get the timestamp wrong, if a slightly unconventional format is used.

EDIT:

A really accurate way of doing this is if you know your input format, is to use DateTime::createFromFormat eg:

$dateTimeObject = \DateTime::createFromFormat('G:i', '9:30'); $dateTimeObject->format('H:i'); 

See http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php for formatting guides, and http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php for info on the method described above.

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Aaria Carter-Weir Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 15:09

Aaria Carter-Weir