string to timestamp (strtotime) .. Help

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I have a string variable($ot) which holds a date in yyyy-mm-dd format. I need to make this date string variable into a Unix Timestamp... below is the code that i am trying, it doesn't seem to be working:

// ot vairable
$ot = '2002-10-22';
// make date into timestamp
$stamp = strtotime('Y-m-d', $ot);
// I have also tried 
$stamp = strtotime($ot);

what do u suggest? thank-you!

[br__ken]

time($ot); ?

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no that didn't work, it needs to become a time stamp

[buck2bcr]

This should work.

// ot vairable
$ot = '2002-10-22';

// make date into timestamp
$stamp = strtotime($ot);

// check to make sure
$new_ot = date("Y-m-d",$stamp);

// echo out make sure it all worked
echo"$stamp = $new_ot = $ot";

I put it in a page and got the following output:

1035262800 = 2002-10-22 = 2002-10-22

Looks like you had it correct.