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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

strtotime() is a function for formatting the date, before it is outputted. It seems like the date is already formated in the date() function, and that you make no attempt to format the date in the second line.

Correct code

$today = date("Y-m-d-H.i");
$datenumber = date('Y-m-d',strtotime($today));
$timenumber = date('H.i',strtotime($today));

You can echo all those variables.

Answer 4

strtotime works with US dates. Try

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