dates 2

[manicleek]

Can anyone tell me how I can change a date entered as day, month, year into a unix datestamp and vice versa?

and also how can I view the unix datestamp for the current date?

 

[jpadie]

for current date use

  echo strtotime("now");

for the first question use strtotime aswell

  $timestamp = strtotime ($human_readable_date);

the human readable date must be in one of the gnu input formats. if it is not then you will need to do some string manipulation or redesign the data capture.

 

[manicleek]

I will be entering the date into a form with three text boxes, day, month, year

how would that be turned into a datestamp if say the variables were $day, $month, $year?

 

[jpadie]

,code]
$timestamp=strtotime($year."-".$month."-".$day);
[/code]

 

[manicleek]

If I have have used the above

$timestamp=strtotime($year."-".$month."-".$day);

To enter a timestamp into a db, how do I reverse the process to output the timestamp as a readable date?

 

[krappleby025]

date("d/m/Y",strtotime($rowfoundnews['NEWS_DATE']))

where $rowfoundnews['NEWS_DATE'] is your db field