note 78259 deleted from function.date by felipe

Note Submitter: david dot scourfield at llynfi dot co dot uk ---- 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.