Textual Date to Unix Timestap

[cooldude832]

Is there an easy way to take a date and convert it to a time stamp.  In the format of

September 12, 2001 - 05:00 pm

???

I know I can explode it and so forth, but is their easier

[teng84]

$date=date_parse("2006-12-12 10:00:00");
echo date("M-d-Y H:i:s A",mktime($date['hour'],$date['minute'],$date['second'],$date['month'],$date['day'],$date['year']));

maybe 

[MadTechie]

LOL, explode seams less of a pain after seeing that 

[teng84]

LOL, explode seams less of a pain after seeing that 

 

same pain i guess 

[PHP_PhREEEk]

Is the date coming from MySQL? If so, there are much easier ways of doing this...

 

PhREEEk

[Barand]

strtotime will handle some textual dates, unfortunately not that one

 

This works

<?php
$dt = '12 September 2001  05:00 pm';

echo date ('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($dt));    //--> 2001-09-12 17:00:00 
?>

[teng84]

strtotime will handle some textual dates, unfortunately not that one

 

This works

<?php
$dt = '12 September 2001  05:00 pm';

echo date ('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($dt));    //--> 2001-09-12 17:00:00 
?>

 

sorry heres how i understand cooldude

 

2001-09-12 17:00:00  ->12 September 2001  05:00 pm

 

am i stupid 

[marcus]

Those smilies make you look stupid, haha.

[per1os]

I am unsure if this will work, but maybe just removing the "-" would make it work?

 

$time = 'September 12, 2001 - 05:00 pm';
$time = str_replace("- ", "", $time);
$timestamp = strtotime($time);
echo date('Y-m-d h:i:s', $timestamp); 

 

Again I do not know if it will work or not, but give it a try.

[Barand]

I am unsure if this will work, but maybe just removing the "-" would make it work?

 

$time = 'September 12, 2001 - 05:00 pm';
$time = str_replace("- ", "", $time);
$timestamp = strtotime($time);
echo date('Y-m-d h:i:s', $timestamp); 

 

Again I do not know if it will work or not, but give it a try.

 

Yes, it works

[teng84]

Those smilies make you look stupid, haha.

does it affect your life?

mind yours?

I'MNOT ASKING FOR YOUR OPINION

i love smilies 

[cooldude832]

strtotime is the function I was seeking, I realized it and then got involved with it, needless to say I came to the same answer as you did.