How to convert a Date into Timestamp using PHP ?

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The Task is to convert a Date to a timestamp using PHP. The task can be done by using the strtotime() function in PHP. It is used to convert English textual date-time description to a UNIX timestamp. The UNIX timestamp represents the number of seconds between a particular date and the Unix Epoch.

Syntax:

strtotime ($EnglishDateTime, $time_now)

Example:

PHP

// PHP program to convert the date  
// to timestamp  
<?php 
  
$date = "2020-09-23"; 
$timestamp1 = strtotime($date); 
echo $timestamp1;  
echo "<br>"; 
   
$date2 = "24-09-2020"; 
$timestamp2 = strtotime($date2); 
echo $timestamp2;  
echo "<br>"; 
   
$date3 = "16 May 2019"; 
$timestamp3 = strtotime($date3); 
echo $timestamp3; 
?> 
?>