Convert PHP Date to Time

Question

How can I covert this PHP date string:

Thu 19th Aug 2010 @ 7:52PM

to this:

1282247549

Which is done by:

gmdate("D jS M Y @ g:iA", $row['project_deadline'])

The timestamp is from the database with the stored time() function

Answer 1

You can parse that string into a UNIX timestamp with the strtotime function:

$str = 'Thu 19th Aug 2010 @ 7:52PM';
$str = str_replace('@', '', $str);

$timestamp = strtotime($str);