formatted time BACK to Unix timestamp?

[Anon]

Let's say I have a formatted date:

May 24, 2002 (10:57:37)

Which was created by doing this:

$createtime = date("F j, Y (h:i:s)");

Is there a way to change it BACK to it's Unix timestamp?

I tried this:

mktime("May 24, 2002 (10:57:37)");

But it gave me an invalid date. Any help on this would be highly appreciated!

[djurnoce]

You have the right idea, you just have the order of the arguments for mktime() wrong. The function prototype is:
mktime( hour, minute, setcond, month, day, year)
I would do this:
$t = date("d-m-Y-H-i-s");
to make a time string that is delimited by dashes: 24-05-2002-10-57-37
Then, explode it into tokens:
explode("-", $createtime);

now, you can easily pass the values in the correct order to mktime(), like this:
$recreatetime = maketime( $t[3], $t[4], $t[5], $t[1], $t[0], $t[2] );

[Anon]

Why thank you kind sir! Perhaps I will more thoroughly RTFM. lol

[Anon]

or just use the strtotime() function