get strtotime of specific time in php

Question

I want to get the timestamp of a day/time for eg

17/12/2014 8pm

Currently I am doing

$curtime = strtotime(date(\"Y-m-d H:i:         


        

Answer 1

The best way to do this is using date_create_from_format. Checking out format's parameters, you will end up with something like this:

    $date = date_create_from_format('d/m/Y ga', '17/12/2014 8pm');
    if (!empty($date)) {//returns false if can't create date
        $timestamp = $date->getTimestamp();
        //echo date('d/m/Y H:i:s', $timestamp);
    }