Question

I’m a newbie using a book to learn the Yii php framework. It has this line of code and the book explains that they have taken the time to format the date for better readability

$lastLogin = strtotime($user->last_login_time);

However, from looking at the manual, I thought that the output of strtotime is a unix timestamp. If that’s correct, how could that be better readability?

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

You are correct.

Their stance on readability is that the time is stored internally as readable.

Go on and try print_r($user); and see what happens 🙂