note 78259 added to function.date

Two comments below give us superfluous code. Firstly, arkin AT REMOVESPAM DOT arkinex DOT com has posted a function that "takes 2007-09-19 21:05:23 and turns it into a unix timestamp." The built-in PHP function strtotime() can do this, so defining another function is unnecessary: <?php $timestamp = strtotime("2007-09-19 21:05:23"); ?> And secondly, vikram dot dhanjal at gmail dot com gives us "Code for generating time stamp for current time." Again, strtotime() can do this, but PHP also has a built-in function for that very purpose: time(). <?php $timestampRightNow = strtotime("Now"); // or simpler still: $timestampRightNow = time(); ?> time() is quicker than strtotime("Now") as PHP does not need to parse the string provided. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 90.203.38.236 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/78259 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78259/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78259/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78259/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78259/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78259/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78259/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78259 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/78259 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php