PHP Date conversion to unix-timestamp

Question

How do yo convert this 2014-11-03 17:01:37 into Unix Timestamp? Is there a method that I can use.

Answer 1

use - strtotime()

$date = "2014-11-03 17:01:37";
echo strtotime($date);

Answer 2

strtotime('2014-11-03 17:01:37')

Answer 3

You can create a DateTime object:

$time = new DateTime("2014-11-03 17:01:37");
$time->getTimestamp();

Answer 4

PHP has a function strtotime for that purpose.

echo strtotime("2014-11-03 17:01:37");