strtotime
Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp
Syntax
strtotime ( string $time [, int $now = time() ] ) : int
Parameters
time
A date/time string. Valid formats are explained in Date and Time Formats.
now
The timestamp which is used as a base for the calculation of relative dates.
Return
Returns a timestamp on success, FALSE otherwise.
Examples
time
<? $time = "t"; $return = strtotime($time); echo $return; ?>
1619194426
now
<? $time = "t"; $now = time(); $return = strtotime($time, $now); echo $return; ?>
1619194426
1
<? echo strtotime("now") . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("-1 second") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("-1 minute") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("-1 hour") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("-1 day") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("-1 week") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("-1 month") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("-1 year") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("-1 year 1 month 1 week 1 day 1 hour 1 minute 1 second") . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("1 second") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("1 minute") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("1 hour") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("1 day") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("1 week") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("1 month") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("1 year") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("1 year 1 month 1 week 1 day 1 hour 1 minute 1 second") . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("last monday") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("next monday") . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("1 january 2000") . PHP_EOL; echo strtotime("1 january 3000"); ?>
1619169226 1619169225 1619169166 1619165626 1619082826 1618564426 1616490826 1587633226 1590920087 1619169227 1619169286 1619172826 1619255626 1619774026 1621761226 1650705226 1653992087 1618790400 1619395200 946684800 32503680000
2
<? $string = "next monday"; $timestamp = strtotime($string); if ($timestamp === false) { echo "\"$string\" is invalid"; } else { echo "\"$string\" is " . date('l \t\h\e jS \o\f F Y \a\t h:i:s A', $timestamp); } ?>
"next monday" is Monday the 26th of April 2021 at 12:00:00 AM