Does PHP have an inverse of the date() function (other than strtotime())?

Question

Is there a function that uses the date() format to interpret a string?

echo date(\'s-i-H d:m:Y\', 1304591364); // 34-29-17 05:05:2011

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Answer 1

The function mktime seems to do what you want.

Check the help over at php.net:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php

EDIT : indeed strtotime may be more convenient for you, I did not know that function, glad to learn.

Answer 2

Try this to reverse:

$x = '2013-09-15';

$x = implode('-', array_reverse(explode('-', $x)));

// now $x = '15-09-2013'

Answer 3

You would typically use strtotime for that:

echo strtotime('2011-05-05 17:29:34');

From the manual:

strtotime — Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp

See valid date and time formats to be sure that the string you are passing in will be parsed correctly.

Answer 4

Yes you can use:

echo strtotime("2011-05-05 17:29:34");

Answer 5

PHP 5.4+ will print 1359674625

echo date_create_from_format('j/n/Y G:i:s','1/2/2013 1:23:45')->getTimestamp();

Answer 6

The real answer to this question the way I mean it is http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php

    $date = date_create_from_format('j-M-Y', '15-Feb-2009');
    echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d'); // 2009-02-15