strtotime to convert both date and time [closed]

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can anyone advise how i would convert a date like "Tuesday, 22 June, 2010 00:00" to a unix timestamp using strtotime()? I need to also store the hours and minutes and it's not clear if is best done using strtotime. Thanks for any help!

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Due to the second ,, strtotime() will currently not understand your date/time format (remove it and it will work properly).

If you have a static format for the date, using strptime() or DateTime::createFromFormat() are more reliable, and will allow other non-datetime strings in the date to be present as long as you've defined them.

echo DateTime::createFromFormat("l, j F, Y H:i","Tuesday, 22 June, 2010 00:00")->format("c");

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strtotime() does convert both date and time. It converts a string to a Unix timestamp.

What is the unix time stamp?

The unix time stamp is a way to track time as a running total of seconds. This count starts at the Unix Epoch on January 1st, 1970. Therefore, the unix time stamp is merely the number of seconds between a particular date and the Unix Epoch. This is very useful to computer systems for tracking and sorting dated information in dynamic and distributed applications both online and client side.

http://www.unixtimestamp.com

You can convert a unix timestamp back to a string using date

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strtotime and date can be used to convert to a UNIX timestamp and extract portions of that timestamp respectively.

The combination should do what you need.

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$string = "Tuesday, 22 June, 2010 00:00";
$dateString = substr($string,0,-5);
$timeArray = explode(':',substr($string,-5));
$timeStamp = strtotime($dateString) + 60*$timeArray[0] + $timeArray[1];