PHP Changing Date to Timestamp Format

[patsfans]

(I think my post got moved because I didn't explain what I needed properly - so sorry mods if this seems like a duplicate)

 

I need to change a date to a timestamp format using a PHP function.

 

I need to take this:

 

$date = "August 18, 2002";

 

and then using php convert it to this automatically:

 

$newdate = "2002-08-18 00:00:00";

 

I've looked here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strptime.php

 

but it shows how to do the reverse of what I need.

 

Does anyone know how the correct PHP function to output it that way?

[jdavidbakr]

Perhaps:

 

$newdate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",strtotime($date));

[patsfans]

Perhaps:

 

$newdate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",strtotime($date));

 

That is EXACTLY what I needed

 

Thank you!