Question

I need to use information from vBulletin database using external script. I need to decode join/last visit date. I found it in database but 06-02-2012 is in database encoded as 1338661020. How to decode it back to 06-02-2012 (in PHP) ?

Answer 1

Alternatively, you can use DateTime (which is a more robust solution).

$date = new DateTime('@1338661020');
echo $date->format(DATE_ATOM);

This also allows you to handle things like custom timezones per-user easily.

More info is available on php.net: https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.datetime.php