sgapiStrtotime(%%string,%%time)

Important Update to Custom Scripting

The CustomScript Action now supports the LUA programming language. Visit our NEW Lua Scripting Resources!


  1. New accounts (created after October 29, 2018) will only have the option to use Lua in scripts.
  2. As of October 29, 2018 Custom Scripting Actions will default to Lua as the scripting type in the Custom Scripting Action for accounts created before this date. You will be able to switch to the Legacy Custom Scripting; though we highly encourage using Lua.
  3. In the long term, Legacy Custom Scripting Actions will be switched to read-only. The exact date on this is to be determined; we will send notifications well ahead of time.

This is equivalent to the strtotime function in PHP. This function takes %%string and converts it to a Unix timestamp. If the optional %%time is given it will convert it relative to %%time.

See an example in our Age Verification by Birthdate Tutorial.

Or, to see other examples or learn more other PHP functions and PHP programming, visit PHP Documentation.