how to get a human readable time to javascript time

Question

Ok, so I have tried all sorts of thing without getting the result I wanted

I have a sql database filled with timestamps (and data) that needs to get plotted in a highchart

Seems I need to convert it to a javascript timestandard, in milliseconds sinds 1 jan 1970

My database timestamp format looks like this " 2014-07-14 03:37:28 " and needs to get to the javascript format

I'm using a piece of php code to extract the data from the database and trow out a json format of the data, but would love some help on how to convert the string into the timestamp i need for the graph, preferably in php.

Hope someone can help me out here

this is the php code used

Answer 1

The propiest that comes to my mind is to create a Date objet with something like:

var str_date =  "2014-07-14 03:37:28";
var year = str_date.substring(0,4);
var month = ...;
var day = ...;
var hours = ...;
var minutes = ...;
var seconds = ...;
var your_date = new Date(year, month-1, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds); 

I let you fill the "..." I think you get the idea. Be careful with the months, they start from 0.

Hoped it helped!

Answer 2

1st you want to change date and time to timestamp by this

$utime  = strtotime(date($db_date));

2nd take the date value and inserted as a js var

var jsdate = '<?php echo $utime?>';