Datetime To Unix timestamp

Question

Is there anyone sitting on a PHP function to convert a date of format 0000-00-00 00:00:00(datetimesql) to unix timestamp?

Answer 1

To do this in PHP 5.2 you can do this:

$datetime = new DateTime();
echo $datetime->format('U');

A newer way to do this as of PHP 5.3 is:

$datetime = new DateTime();
echo $datetime->getTimestamp();