Get a timestamp from a day,year, and month

Question

I have the following string: 2013-03-22

I need to convert that to a UNIX Timestamp.

How do I do this using PHP?

I agreed with @zdhickman..you just go through this link:http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php — VIVEK-MDU, Jul 26 '13 at 12:32

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 26 '13 at 12:31

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Use the strtotime function of PHP.

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$unixstamp = strtotime("2013-03-22");

answered Jul 26 '13 at 12:31

Code Lღver

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 26 '13 at 12:37

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$dateTime = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', '2013-03-22');
$dateTime->setTime(0, 0, 0);
echo $dateTime->getTimestamp();

answered Jul 26 '13 at 12:37

Macbric

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 26 '13 at 12:32

1

Simple:

echo $time = strtotime("2013-03-22");

answered Jul 26 '13 at 12:32

Bora

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 17 '15 at 16:50

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Using

strtotime("2013-03-22")

It will convert the date sting into timestamp value.

edited Apr 17 '15 at 16:50

answered Jul 26 '13 at 12:42

Manikandan S

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