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

Use DateTime::createFromFormat() if you know source format of date ('m.d.y H:i') in your example

print DateTime::createFromFormat('m.d.y H:i',$date)->getTimestamp()

Manual
DateTime::createFromFormat
DateTime::getTimestamp