Gets the Unix timestamp

Object oriented style

public int DateTime::getTimestamp ( void )

Procedural style

int date_timestamp_get ( DateTime $object )

Gets the Unix timestamp.

This function has no parameters.

Returns the Unix timestamp representing the date.

Example #1 DateTime::getTimestamp() example

Object oriented style


<?php
$date = new DateTime();
echo $date->getTimestamp();
?>

Procedural style


<?php
$date = date_create();
echo date_timestamp_get($date);
?>

The above examples will output something similar to:

1272509157

Using U as the parameter to DateTime::format() is an alternative when using PHP 5.2.

DateTime::getTimestamp