timestamp too big to be saved in a int variable

Question

I'm working on my own calendar application, and I'm currently facing the problem that, as soon as I enter a time later than ca. 2040 the number (seconds) gets too big and can't be saved in a variable of the type "int" anymore.

It seems to be clear that I have to cast my variable (that's what google said), but somehow it doesn't work ...

I don't know whether the php functions won't accept any other variable types than int or if I just didn't figure it out right, but I'm sure I'm not the only nor the first one facing this problem.

So do you have any suggestions how to cope with this problem?

Answer 1

There is a lot of information here: http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php

Try using a 64-bit environment.