converting DD-MM-YYY to time

[needsomehelp]

Can anyone please tell me how I convert DD-MM-YYY (text) to TIME (unix)

thought I'd say that I have this line at the top of all my pages, just in case it means a different code.

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');	//### Set the default timezone

[Fou-Lu]

d-m-y is a valid gnu format. Use

PHP Code:

$timestamp = strtotime('1-1-2012'); 


If its already in SQL you can call the databases method of conversion. MySQL uses UNIX_TIMESTAMP that should accept a valid datetime type in SQL.