strtotime vs mktime

any difference?

[mooger35]

date("l, F j, Y", strtotime("20071020"));
date("l, F j, Y", mktime(0,0,0,10,20,2007));

both return the appropriate "Saturday, October 20, 2007"

Is there any reason to use one versus the other?

[Habtom]

In either case you are getting the Unix Timestamp.

strtotime("20071020");
mktime(0,0,0,10,20,2007);

In the way you have used it now, I don't think you need to think much about using one or the other.

But strtotime, gives you a bit of more flexibility when it comes to what you put into it.

To give you an idea, if you need to get the last Sunday's date, you can just use strtotime in the following manner:
echo strtotime("last Sunday"); which is not that easy in mktime.

Coming two weeks:
echo strtotime("+2 week");

The PHP manual has got the details of mktime [php.net] and strtotime [php.net]

Habtom