Converting Date To Milliseconds

Question

I’d like some help converting this function to the Cakephp standard. She takes the date from datetimepiker and turns it into milliseconds, but I’ve searched a lot and I can’t find anything similar to the pattern Cakephp.

public function add()
{
    $this->db->set("start", $this->_formatDate($this->input->post("from")));
    $this->db->set("end", $this->_formatDate($this->input->post("to")));
}