Question

I am completing a tutorial which can be found here…http://www.elated.com/articles/cms-in-an-afternoon-php-mysql/

I am having problems getting the correct date format into the database. I have successfully add JQuery UI calendar with a format of dateformat: “yy-mm-dd” but I want to add the date in the format “dd-mm-yy”

The UNIX Timestamp always seems to put the year first eg. 2010-04-03

This is a line of code from my PHP extracting the date…

$sql = "SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS *, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(publicationDate) AS publicationDate FROM articles ORDER BY " . mysql_escape_string($order) . " LIMIT :numRows";

This is one adding the date which is the important bit as most of the users will understand the dd-mm-yy format better…

 $sql = "INSERT INTO articles ( publicationDate, title, summary, content ) VALUES (FROM_UNIXTIME(:publicationDate), :title, :summary, :content )";

Any help greatly appreciated as I’m at a lose, even after reading part of the PHP Manual.

Many thanks,
CD

Answer 1

If the issue is that YY-MM-DD is stored instead of DD-MM-YY, why not reverse it?

list($yy, $mm, $dd) = explode("-", $datestring);
$ddmmyy = "$dd-$mm-$yy";