change date format to numbers in php

Question

Please, how i can change date format in php

from something like 2012-12-14 08:40:26

to format number like 28124629523

Any search on Google or Stack Overflow can find this answer. Lucky John only took 9 seconds to answer this. — ntgCleaner, Dec 14 '12 at 18:51

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '12 at 18:49

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FYI, what you're looking for is called a Unix Timestamp

echo strtotime('2012-12-14 08:40:26');

$datetime = new DateTime('2012-12-14 08:40:26');
echo $datetime->getTimestamp();

answered Dec 14 '12 at 18:49

John Conde

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