Question

1i have been using html 5’s input type=”date” and found it very useful. i just wanna know if this is possible:

suppose i chose 1/01/2012 in the date picker

i want to save it on my database (mysql) but i want it to be like this ” January 1,2012 “

are there ways to do it and how?

require_once "includes/database.php";

$title=$_POST['txtTitle'];
$old_date  = explode("/",$_POST['txtDate']);
$new_date = $old_date[1].' '.$old_date[0].','.$old_date[2];
$date=$new_date;
$from=$_POST['txtFrom'];
$to=$_POST['txtTo'];
$place=$_POST['txtPlace'];
$details=$_POST['txtDetails'];
$id=$_POST['txtEid'];   

        if($id==""){
            $sql = "INSERT INTO events (event_title,event_date,event_tfrom,event_tto,event_place,event_details) VALUES (:title,:date,:from,:to,:place,:details)";
            $qry = $db->prepare($sql);
            $qry->execute(array(':title'=>$title,':date'=>$date,':from'=>$from,':to'=>$to,':place'=>$place,':details'=>$details));
        }else{
        $sql = "UPDATE events SET event_title=?, event_date=?, event_tfrom=?, event_tto=?, event_place=?, event_details=? WHERE event_id=?";
            $qry = $db->prepare($sql);
            $qry->execute(array($title,$date,$from,$to,$place,$details,$id));
        }

    echo "<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>alert('Successfully Saved!')</script>";
    echo "<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>window.open('cms_events.php','_self')</script>";

Answer 1

Using javascript you can do something like this

    <button onclick = "getDate()">click for date</button>
    <script>
    function getDate(){
       var monthsOfYear = new Array("January", "February", "March", 
"April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", 
"October", "November", "December");

   var d = new Date();
   var currdate = d.getDate();
   var currmonth = d.getMonth();
   var curryear = d.getFullYear();

   alert(monthsOfYear[currmonth] + " "+currdate+","+curryear);
}

Hope this helps..