php - Adding date and time variables and getting unix timestamp

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I foolishly thought you could just add the two and somehow magically get away with doing it the following way:

$time = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['time']));
$date = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['date']))." ".$time;
$date = strtotime($date);

Obviously there is no way this would work. Basically, I have two fields, one where the user enters in the date and another for time. I need my timestamp to reflect both inputs. Any ideas on how this can be done?

EDIT: For example: I input 09/04/2013 for the date and 7:25 for the time and got: 1378297500 which equals to Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:25:00 GMT

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Answer

Solution:

If you run this code:

date_default_timezone_set('CST6CDT');
$dt = strtotime('09/04/2013 7:25');
echo $dt . " - " . gmdate('r', $dt);

You will get:

1378279500 - Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:25:00 +0000

If you're getting your date & time inGMT then set timezone accordingly before callingstrtotime like this:

date_default_timezone_set('GMT');

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