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date_to_timestamp function (and back)

By Stephan van der Hulst
on March 16, 2001

Version: 1.0

Type: Function

Category: Calendars/Dates

License: GNU General Public License

Description: Two basic functions to convert a mySQL date to a UNIX timestamp and back.

//date_to timestamp accepts a date as parameter. In mySQLformat: yyyy-mm-dd (eg. 2001-03-16)
//edit the delimiter to your convenience.
//returns $timestamp; the timestamp associated with the input.

function date_to_timestamp ($date)
{
$split_date = split ('-', $date);
$timestamp = gmmktime (0, 0, 0, $split_date[1], $split_date[2], $split_date[0]);
return $timestamp;
}


//timestamp_to_date accepts a timestamp as parameter.
//returns $date. In mySQLformat; yyyy-mm-dd (eg. 2001-03-16)

function timestamp_to_date ($timestamp)
{
$date = date ("Y-m-d" , $timestamp);
return $date;
}