Question

I am trying to insert a row into database. All entries insert correctly, however the date is inserted as:

0000-00-00

I have tried formatting the date manually:

        $updated = $a["updated"][0];

        $updated = explode(" ", $updated);
        $updated[1] = explode("/", $updated[1]);

        $y = date('Y');
        $m = $updated[1][1];
        $d = $updated[1][0];

        $updated = $y . '-' . $m . '-' . $d;

        $updated = strtotime( $updated );
        echo '<pre>'. $updated .'</pre>';
        $upd = date('Y-m-d', $updated);

        $a["updated"][0] = $updated;            
        echo '<pre>'. $upd .'</pre>';

This is the output of the var_dump($a):

1342134000

2012-07-13

array(3) {
  ["metal"]=>
  string(6) "Silver"
  ["am"]=>
  array(3) {
    [0]=>
    string(7) "2748.00"
    [1]=>
    string(8) "1779.220"
    [2]=>
    string(8) "2253.200"
  }
  ["updated"]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    int(1342134000)
  }
}

I have also tried using mysql_date_format but the row is not inserted at all:

$updated = mysql_date_format($updated);

This is my insert query

mysql_query("INSERT INTO LondonFixes VALUES(null,'" . $a["metal"] . "','AM'," . $a["am"][1] . "," . $a["am"][0] . "," . $a["am"][2] . "," . $a["updated"][0] . ", null)");

This is my table structure

    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `LondonFixes` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `Metal` varchar(10) CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_general_ci NOT NULL,
  `AmPm` varchar(2) CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_general_ci NOT NULL,
  `GBP` decimal(10,5) NOT NULL,
  `USD` decimal(10,5) NOT NULL,
  `EUR` decimal(10,5) NOT NULL,
  `Updated` date NOT NULL,
  `TimeStamp` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `Entry` (`Metal`,`AmPm`,`Updated`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=229 ;

There is probably a very simple solution to this, but go easy on me please!

Answer 1

Month and day require leading zero.

Use:

$upd = date('Y-m-d', $updated);

Also be sure that your date is enclosing by quotations like string.

,'" . $a["updated"][0] . "'

In your code you do not have quotations for the date.