PHP: Problem with strtotime

Question

What\'s going on with strtotime here?

$today = date(\'m.d.y H:i\', time());
echo strtotime($today);

It does not output anything... What\'s

Answer 1

strtotime can only parse certain formats, not any random assortment of numbers and letters. "m.d.y H:i" is not a format strtotime can parse. You'll need to parse that manually using, for example, strptime.