converting a variable

[robsgaming]

Lets say I have a variable $theDate which is equal to January 22, 2004, 7:09 pm

$theDate = "January 22, 2004, 11:09:51 am";

Is there any way to convert that variable to a 24 hour timestamp such as

year, month, day, time, sec
20040122110951

Thanks in advance for any help.

[superwormy]

www.php.net/strtotime
www.php.net/date

[batman]

http://www.php.net/strtotime says file not found.

Try:

time()

[superwormy]

Um... www.php.net/strtotime:

strtotime
(PHP 3>= 3.0.12, PHP 4 )

strtotime -- Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp
Description
int strtotime ( string time [, int now])

The function expects to be given a string containing an English date format and will try to parse that format into a Unix timestamp relative to the timestamp given in now, or the current time if none is supplied. Upon failure, -1 is returned.

Because strtotime() behaves according to GNU date syntax, have a look at the GNU manual page titled Date Input Formats. Described there is valid syntax for the time parameter.

[Weedpacket]

...and then use date() on that, you forgot to mention 🙂

[superwormy]

I already mentioned date up above...