Question

What is the easiest way to conver MYSQL Datetime into PHP UNIXTIME?

Example:

data from mysql is 2012-12-31 23:59:59 then it converted into UNIXTIME.

$dateTime = '2012-12-31 23:59:59'; // convert this to unixtime stamp
$unixTime = strtotime($dateTime); // this not work as expected

I have tried strtotime, but it not work correctly.

Answer 1

You could do:

list($date, $time) = explode(' ', $yourMySQLDateTime);
list($year, $month, $day) = explode('-', $date);
list($hour, $minute, $second) = explode(':', $time);

$timestamp = mktime($hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year);