Question

Does anyone know how to insert into column(of date type) date in the format of dd-mm-yyyy?

I’m using calendar, and it selects days like dd-mm-yyyy, but it can’t be inserted because of the format that uses mysql by default (yyyy-mm-dd).

The problem is, that I need to compare dates that has been inserted by the calendar and the dates that has been automatically inserted with current_date function. Basicly I have column DoR (date_of_registration) and Status. I’ve made DoR of date type, and Status of varchar(). In the Status I use Calendar to insert the date. Thus, I’ve compared it anyway but it gives strange results. I guess it is not comparing correctly.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Answer 1

Convert the output from calendar into date format like this

$cal_date=17-08-2012;
$date=date('Y-m-d',strtotime($cal_date));
echo $date; //gives date as 2012-08-17

Now you can insert this date into mysql and do comparisons