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    <p>I'm calling <code>strtotime()</code> on a formatted datetime string and for some reason it always returns <code>NOW()</code>...</p> <p>If my formatted datetime string (stored in the <code>last_seen</code> attribute) is: <code>2013-06-13 07:13:04</code></p> <p>and I write the following code:</p> <pre><code>echo $user-&gt;last_seen; echo date('F j, Y', strtotime($user-&gt;last_seen)); </code></pre> <p>The output I get is:</p> <pre><code>NOW() January 1, 1970 </code></pre> <p>What on earth is going wrong here??? This is definitely not the expected result. The string is stored in a MySQL database, if that makes any difference.</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> by request, the code used to create the attribute in the database is:</p> <pre><code>$user-&gt;last_seen = date('Y-m-d H:i:s'); $user-&gt;save; </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit 2:</strong> by request, the code used to pull the users table, with the user we want, is:</p> <pre><code>$user = User::find($user_id); </code></pre> <p>(not very helpful, lol). </p> <p><strong>Edit 3:</strong> if I <code>var_dump($user-&gt;last_seen)</code> the result is:</p> <pre><code>object(Laravel\Database\Expression)#40 (1) { ["value":protected]=&gt; string(5) "NOW()" } </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit 4:</strong> If I echo <code>var_dump(strtotime($user-&gt;last_seen))</code> the result is:</p> <pre><code>bool(false) </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit 5:</strong> this problem was a result of me being an idiot, but some fine debugging was done by everyone who posted. Read the answers if you are interested. </p>
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    1. COWhere do you get the object `$user` from? What does the code look like that is responsible to set is its field `last_seen`?
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    2. COThe `$user` object is pulled from the database using an object relational mapper (ORM) in a MVC framework. I'll edit the post with the code used to set it.
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    3. COApparently you have stored the string 'NOW()' in the database instead of a date, and you get back that string from $user->last_seen
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