Convert month,day and year to Unix timestamp

Question

I'm trying to convert month,day and year to Unix timestamp.

<?php
  day = '30' ;
  $month = 'November' ;
  $year = '2016' ;
  $t = date('H:i');
  $quoteDate = strtotime("$year-$month-$day $t");
?>

This code gives correct year but wrong day and month.

Are you sure your post values are correct? Post sample values so we can test it. — John Conde, Oct 09 '15 at 20:12
mktime is a more precise way to deal with this, no? http://php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php — Dave Goten, Oct 09 '15 at 20:14
I got that code from this page http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6208484/converting-separate-month-day-and-year-values-into-a-timestamp — smc, Oct 09 '15 at 20:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 09 '15 at 20:19

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I think you should try this with DateTime instead, which can be massaged to handle that kind of date string

$day = '30' ;
  $month = 'November' ;
  $year = '2016' ;
  $t = date('H:i');
  $quoteDate = DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-F-d H:i", "$year-$month-$day $t");
echo $quoteDate->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

You can see a demo here https://3v4l.org/adJ5P

answered Oct 09 '15 at 20:19

Machavity

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OP wants timestamp, `$quoteDate->getTimestamp();` – Federkun Oct 09 '15 at 20:21
@Federico he can use it to get whatever format he wants once the object is created – Machavity Oct 09 '15 at 20:22
@Machavity how can I convert it to Unix timestamp? – smc Oct 09 '15 at 20:45
@ShyamMohan use [format](http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php), which supports the same formatting as `date` – Machavity Oct 09 '15 at 21:36

Convert month,day and year to Unix timestamp

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