PHP equivalent of UNIX_TIMESTAMP() of MySQL?

Question

In MySQL:

select UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-12-08 21:01:33') ;

I need to get the value from PHP.

Answer 1

echo time();

or

echo strtotime('now');

• http://php.net/manual/en/function.time.php
• http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

strtotime will:

Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp

So you might just try:

echo strtotime('2009-12-08 21:01:33');