PHP strtotime() Function
What is a strtotime Function?
Explanation
The "strtotime()" function is used to parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp.
Syntax:
strtotime(time,now)
In the above syntax the "time" is a mandatory field, which specifies the string to parse, "now" is the optional field is a timestamp used to calculate the returned value, if left current time will be taken.
Example :
<?php
echo date('m/d/Y h:i:s', strtotime('next tuesday')); ?>
Result :
05/27/2014 12:00:00 In the above example the strtotime() function is used to return the date of next tuesday.
Note :
PHP (5 >= 5.1.0)