Creating Unix timestamp from user input

[showman]

Is there a quick and easy way to convert a users input in the form of mm/dd/yyyy into a unix timestamp.

I'm sure that I can explode the value of the variables on the '/' and assign each separate value to an individual variable, then construct a single variable in the sysdate() format to get the timestamp from, but just wondered if there wasn't an easier way..

I have a habit of taking the long way around things..

thanks
doug

[drew010]

Check out the function strtotime() for one option.