Help with Date translation!!

medar

I use WWWThreads, and it stores system dates (I believe) in a UNIX format.

964825500 = 07/28/00 06:05 PM

If I wanted to have a VERY small PHP code that is an input box for a date, is it possible to have it setup where I enter the following:

07/28/2000

...and it will output the proper UNIX timestamp? (ie, approximately 964825500). I don't care about the time...I just want to be able to enter a date in a box, press a button, and have it output the UNIX timestamp.

Thanks for anyone with ideas!

amcgrath

strtotime($date_field_var);

medar

I missed something here - this snippet does not output the UNIX date.

I am entering "07/28/2000" or "07/28/00" in the input box - but I get a blank response.

What did I turn around? Here is the code:

amcgrath

Umm, yea it does. UNless you mean Unix date is different from Unix timestamp, the code you have above works fine for me...

mrskhris

Try this.
First, split you date by slashes.
Second, use month, day and year as arguments for the function mktime().
I assume you're going to use the same format all the time.

amcgrath

Yea, I was gonna suggest that to him, but his code actually works....