Convert date string to unix time

[wasson]

Hello,

This should be pretty basic, but I'm terrible with date and time functions. Basically I wrote a little script that captured the date as a string like "July 3, 2007". Well, now I'd like to take all the information recorded and put it into another database as unix time (I'm wanting to migrate my personally written scripts into a more robust pre-written forum script).

I think I need to use mktime(), but I'm not sure how to convert the string date above into something useable for mktime(). Any ideas?

[NogDog]

This should do it:

$date = 'July 3, 2007';
$unixtime = strtotime($date);

[wasson]

You are awesome.

Worked perfectly, thanks!

[NogDog]

wasson wrote:

You are awesome.

Worked perfectly, thanks!

Thank, but really it's strtotime() that is awesome. It can be used for a number of useful things, including date arithmetic; so it's definitely worth spending a little time studying its capabilities.