strtotime php code example

Example 1: php convert string to date

$time = strtotime('10/16/2003');

$newformat = date('Y-m-d',$time);

echo $newformat;
// 2003-10-16

Example 2: strtotime format

$date = '25/05/2010';
$date = str_replace('/', '-', $date);
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date));

Example 3: php date strtotime format

$date = '25/05/2010';
$date = str_replace('/', '-', $date);
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date));

Example 4: php date to seconds

<?php
$str = 'Tue Dec 15 2009';
$timestamp = strtotime($str);
echo $timestamp;
//output: 1260831600
?>