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Date to timestamp (PHP)?

How do I get the current time in seconds since 1st january 1970 in php?

does the dateTime object support anything since as 

$date1 = new DateTime("01/01/1970");   
$return = since($date1, date.now());

The problem I get here is I could just do something like ((minutes=hours *60)*60)

Is there a nicer way?

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David
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  • Have you tried a simple `time()` call? – Bojangles May 17 '11 at 08:52
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    `$dateTime = new DateTime; echo $dateTime->format('U');` – Gordon May 17 '11 at 08:54
  • @Gordon The reason I didn't think this was a duplicate is because I want to know if my since() function is correct – David May 17 '11 at 08:59
  • your `since` function is superfluous. Either use `strtotime` or use the DateTime API. Also see [Difference between 2 dates in seconds](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5988450/difference-between-2-dates-in-seconds) – Gordon May 17 '11 at 09:02

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You can use the time() function: http://php.net/manual/en/function.time.php

kapa
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Fabrizio D'Ammassa
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  • ah, but this link doesn't appear to have anything with regards to a since() function, I only guessed at that method above as I couldn't find anything on it on first look – David May 17 '11 at 09:01
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time()
Returns the current time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT).

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$_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME']; is a pretty light way to do it, if your server supports it. Otherwise you have the usual time() / strtotime() functions. Also, why is there javascript in your PHP?

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