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How to convert date to timestamp in PHP?

I want to transfer some date to timestamp ,the date formart is %day %month %time. Like 25 nov 07:44, I tried some method below, but the two dates are different. need a help, thanks.

<?php
$date = '25 nov 07:44';
$time = explode(" ",$date);
$minute = explode(":",$time[2]);
$timestamp = mktime(''.$minute[0].' '.$minute[1].' 00 '.$time[1].' '.$time[0].' 2011')."<br />";// mktime(%hour, %minute, %second, %month, %day, %year);
echo $timestamp; //1322202671
echo date("Y-m-j H:i:s", $timestamp); //2011-11-25 07:31:11
?>

Answer 1

In recent versions of php (5.3+), you can use DateTime::createFromFormat().

Try something like

$format = 'd M H:i';
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat($format, $timestamp);
echo $date->format('Y-m-j H:i:s'); 

Personally, I find this class based approach a little cleaner.

PHP Docs:

DateTime::createFromFormat

date() for info on format strings