PHP date/time to timestamp (custom format)

Question

Any one got a function to like strtotime() but the takes the format as input?

For example I need to convert yyyymmdd to a timestamp, or perhaps yyyyddmm. So I would like to specify the format used. Also Im on Windows so strptime() isn't an option.

Answer 1

PHP 5's DateTime class has the createFromFormat method which does what you need.

However, it requires PHP 5.3 so it's not always an option (yet).