converting date to timestamp?

[Smo]

Is it possible to convert a date like 20 Dec 2001 to a timestamp?

if so, how?

I figured that'd be the easiest way to count days..

[jason]

Yes, check out the very cool strtotime() function. You can pass it virtually any English string and it will return a timestamp. You can even use it to do your count automatically as in:

strtotime("20 Dec 2001 + 30 days");

Enjoy!

--Jason