Question

How can I insert the value from an (in a form) into a MySQL date field. I’m trying this:

<form  action="enviar.php" autocomplete="off" method="post"> 
    <label for="nacimiento" class="youpasswd" data-icon="p">
        Fecha de Nacimiento
    </label>
    <br>
    <input id="nacimiento" name="nacimiento"
           required type="datetime" placeholder="DD/MM/YYYY" />
</form>

enviar.php

$nacimiento= $_POST['nacimiento'];
mysql_query("INSERT INTO voluntarios(nacimiento) VALUES ('$nacimiento')");`

This is working for all the other fields but not with the date field; it is empty. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you

Answer 1

You seem to have problems even getting the value from your input field to the server. This needs to get fixed first. Debug (var_dump) your $_POST data and check what is going on. Provide more code if you need more help. From what you write, I don’t see, why the value shouldn’t get sent.

After you got your date string, convert the value to a string literal format MySQL recognizes:

$mysqldate = date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $phpdate );

Then insert it using mysqli_query:

mysqli_query(sprintf("INSERT INTO voluntarios(nacimiento) VALUES ('%s')"),
                      mysql_real_escape_string($mysqldate));

Using PDO do this:

$dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=test', $user, $pass);
$q = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO voluntarios(nacimiento) VALUE (:nacimiento)");
$q->bindParam(':nacimiento', $mysqldate, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$success = $q->execute();