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charlie
charlie

Reputation: 481

Converting strtotime to an integer

I am trying to get the time -24 hours ago using this:

$a = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('-1 day', strtotime(date("Y-m-d H:i:s"))));
$a = strtotime($a);

which calculates fine, but when I use the variable $a to send to an API, it says that the value is not an integer. The error returned is:

400 Invalid 'Query' parameter: json: cannot unmarshal number into Go struct field SearchClause.ClauseChildren.RuleValue of type string

If I change the variable to this: $a = '1583751712'; and send it to the API, it works absolutely fine.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 361

Answers (1)

Robin Gillitzer
Robin Gillitzer

Reputation: 1602

The error occurs because your API requires a string and not an integer. The function strtotime returns the timestamp as integer. Try to typecast your integer to a string. Like Sherif wrote before, you don't need the date formatting if you only need to return your timestamp.

$a = (string) strtotime('-1 day');

Upvotes: 2

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