Easier way to get the Unix timestamp

[nicosemp]

PHP has a function to get the Unix timestamp: strtotime()
It works pretty well on your example too:

<?
require 'class.iCalReader.php';

$ical = new ical('MyCal.ics');
$array= $ical->events();

// The ical date
$date = $array[0]['DTSTART'];
echo $date;

// The Unix timestamp
$unixDate = strtotime($date);
echo $unixDate;
?>

This is also useful because then you can get a readable date:
echo date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', $unixDate);