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[jdoe]

While I've easily found a number of manners to convert a timestamp to a formatted date, I'm having the hardest time trying to find a way to convert a formatted date into a timestamp!

I know there's got to be a way to "timetostr" as it were, converting a, for example, date(d F Y H:i:s O) formatted date into a MySQL-style timestamp, but I've driven myself to headache and still haven't found it.

Any help, a function that'll accomplish this, would be much, much obliged!

[wildteen88]

The only way to convert a string into a timestamp (UNIX) is strtotime.

MySQL supports UNIX timestamps.

[jdoe]

God! I had the whole thing backward; it is just plain ol' strtotime()! Idiot!

Thanks very much, I've got it now!