php datetime to unix timestamp code example

Example 1: php datetime object get unix timestamp

$date = new DateTime();
echo $date->getTimestamp();

Example 2: php convert unix time to date

<?php
$timestamp=1333699439;
echo gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z", $timestamp);
?>

Example 3: unix timestamp in php

strtotime("now");

// strtotime is a function that will take a string parameter 
// that specifies a date, and returns a unix time stamp bassed
// on that

echo strtotime("2020-02-24");

// prints: 1582502400

Example 4: php unix timestamp to date

$currentTime = DateTime::createFromFormat( 'U', $timestamp );