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If you want to change the date and time format in PHP programming language, then keep your close attention in this post as I am going to share about the PHP strtotime function with the example.

PHP strtotime function with the example

The strtotime() function is a built-in function in PHP programming language. This function will change the textual DateTime into a Unix timestamp as per your requirement.

Syntax:

Below is the Syntax of strtotime function in PHP code.

1	strtotime ($EnglishDateTime, $time_now)

Example 1) strtotime() function example

<?php

echo strtotime("now"), "\n";

echo strtotime("10 September 2000"), "\n";

echo strtotime("+1 day"), "\n";

echo strtotime("+1 week"), "\n";

echo strtotime("+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds"), "\n";

echo strtotime("next Thursday"), "\n";

echo strtotime("last Monday"), "\n";

Example 2) strtotime() function example

<?php

// prints the converted english text in second

echo strtotime("next sunday"), "\n";

// prints the above time in date format

echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime("next sunday"))."\n";

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