Converting separate month, day and year values into a timestamp

Question

I have a month value (1-12), day value (1-31), and a year value (2010,2011,2012). I also have a hour value and a minute value.

How can I give this to strtotime()

Answer 1

Given the variables $year $month $day $hour $minute you can do:

strtotime("$year-$month-$day $hour:$minute");

Be careful to enclose the variables with ", never in this case with '.

UPDATE (thanks to comments of @Clockwork and @Tadeck):

In case there is a variable $timeofday that represents the time of day (i.e. AM or PM), then you can parse it this with:

strtotime("$year-$month-$day $hour:$minute$timeofday");

that is to say, just attach that variable to the end of the text.