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Asked: 2026-05-28T17:05:24+00:00

i am trying to retrieve date from Mysql db to my html form in

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i am trying to retrieve date from Mysql db to my html form in order to edit the records, now the way i used to insert the date into the database was getting Year – Month – Day each from a list and then unite them in one variable like this :

$dob = $_POST['Year'] . '-' . $_POST['Month'] . '-' .$_POST['Day'];

this will insert the value of $dob like this format 0000-00-00 in my table

the problem is that how i will retrieve this variable and split it each element to its specific list

what i tried seems useless and wrong which is this code

$row['userDateOfBirth'] = $year . '-' . $month . '-' . $day ;

then put each variable to (example:year)

<option value="1920" selected="selected"><? echo $year ; ?></option>

this did not work , how can i do this ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Assuming you’ve got an actual date/datetime field, you can do the splitting inside MySQL:

    SELECT YEAR(datefield), MONTH(datefield), DAY(datefield), etc...

    which gives you three separate fields containing the individual date components. You could also do things like explode('-', $datestr) in PHP to decompose ‘yyyy-mm-dd’ into individual yyyy, mm, and dd chunks.

    Lots of options, it’s up to you to pick which one is easiest/best for your particular problem.

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