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unixTimeStamp

Use of 64 bit processors and later versions of PHP have effectively made this function obsolete. It may be removed in later releases of ADOdb

syntax

int dbObject::unixDate(){
       float $timestamp,
       
       }

Description

The static function unixTimeStamp() Parses the timestamp string $<b>str</b> and returns it in unix mktime format(e g. a number indicating the seconds after January 1st, 1970). It expects the date to be in “Y-m-d, H:i:s” (1970-12-24, 00:00:00) or “Y-m-d H:i:s” (1970-12-24 00:00:00) or “YmdHis” (19701225000000) format, except for Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server, where “M d Y h:i:s” (Dec 25 1970 00:00:00AM) is also accepted (the 3 letter month strings are controlled by a global array, which might need localisation). For versions of PHP earlier than 5, this function could be used to bypass limitations of dates before 1^st January 1970. For databases that do not support the functionality, the function makes use of ADOdb time handling library.

Usage

SQL Server example

/*
 * Connection to SQL Server database assumed
 */
$d = $db::unixDate(strtotime('1920-10-10'));
print $d;
/*
 * returns -1553450400
 */
print date('Y-m-d',$d);
/*
 * Returns the following string: '1920-10-10'
 */