PHP Convert formatted date into unixtime -

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i have dates in format y-m-d hour-minute-second 2013-09-03 12:10:28, need unixtimestamp.

php has slough of functions transforming dates , times, apprently none can accept date , format , convert unixtime. closest function found mktime(), need parse current date each of components. there easier way?

strtotime('2013-09-03 12:10:28');