PHP convert string into date time

Question

I have a php string from db it is 20/11/2017 I want to convert it milliseconds. It's my code to doing that.

$the_date = "20/11/2017";
$mill_sec_date = strtotime($the_date);
var_dump($mill_sec_date);

But it does not print any thing rather than

bool(false);

What is the problem and how can i solve it ????

See http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php for a list of supported date and time formats. — Marco, Oct 18 '17 at 05:13
Yes, because `strtotime` returns an unix timestamp, which is counted in seconds, not milliseconds. — Marco, Oct 18 '17 at 05:16
refer this [answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/41571326/6521116) — LF00, Oct 18 '17 at 05:49

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 18 '17 at 05:15

When using slashes to separate parts of the date, PHP recognizes the format as MM/DD/YYYY. Which makes your date invalid because there is no 20th month. If you want to use the format where day and month is swapped, you need to use hyphens, like DD-MM-YYYY.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '17 at 05:28

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$time = strtotime('10/16/2003');

$newformat = date('Y-m-d',$time);
print_r($newformat);

answered Oct 18 '17 at 05:28

Ritesh Khatri

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Thanks bro.. if the solution solved your problem please do not forget to mark this answer as right answer. – Ritesh Khatri Oct 18 '17 at 05:38
@kousheralampranto if this solved your problem mark the answer as the selected answer for this question, – S4NDM4N Oct 18 '17 at 05:43
does it convert into milliseconds if i use "10/16/2013 10:20AM" – Kousher Alam Oct 18 '17 at 06:02
yup you can do like this, $time_ms = $newformat * 1000; – Ritesh Khatri Oct 18 '17 at 06:05

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 18 '17 at 05:14

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Use DateTime class to call function createFromFormat

    $date = date_create_from_format('d/M/Y:H:i:s', $string);
$date->getTimestamp();

answered Oct 18 '17 at 05:14

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 18 '17 at 05:15

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Most likely you got the date format wrong, see here for a list of supported date and time formats:

This section describes all the different formats that the strtotime(), DateTime and date_create() parser understands.

answered Oct 18 '17 at 05:15

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 18 '17 at 05:46

You string is not accept by the strtotime, you can use createFromFormat set set the with the format type of the time string like below, you can also check the live demo. And you also can refer to this answer

var_dump(DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', "20/11/2017"));

PHP convert string into date time

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