Date conversion in codeigniter

[eluser]Clooner[/eluser]
Simply using the date function!

Code:

$date = explode("/", $yourowntimeformat);
$unixtime = mktime(0, 0, 0, $date[1], $date[0], $date[2]);
// $unixtime = time(); // to get the current time!
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $unixtime);