[SOLVED] Convert '30-11-2008' to Unix Timestamp

[techiefreak05]

I know I can take the value of time() and convert it to a date format... but how can I do the reverse.?

 

Thanks.

[genericnumber1]

strtotime() but you might want to be careful about the ambiguity of dates like 12-12-2008 (which one is the month?).

[techiefreak05]

It's like: DAY-MONTH-YEAR.

 

What format would you suggest?

[genericnumber1]

In this case it might be less ambiguous to just use mktime()

 

<?php
$date = '30-11-2008';
list($day, $month, $year) = explode('-', $date);
$timestamp = mktime(null, null, null, $month, $day, $year);
?>

[techiefreak05]

Thanks a lot!