Question

I am using the following jquery date & time picker on a diary page.
http://trentrichardson.com/examples/timepicker/#rest_examples

Its quick and easy to use and makes a date thats easy to read but the problem I am having is that im not sure how on earth to convert it to a standard mysql date format to save it to the database.

At the moment when I select a date and time it will add it to the timedate input box as something like this >>
Wed January 9, 2013 01:43 pm

If I then hit submit, it doesn’t get saved to the database.

Does anyone know how I can convert this into a format in the php that processes the posted data and save it as usual, as its driving me round the bend trying to work out a way of converting it ?.

The code im currently using for the jquery part is the following :

<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$('#timedate').datetimepicker({
timeFormat: "hh:mm tt",
dateFormat: "D MM d, yy"
 });});</script>

which creates a date like :

 Wed January 9, 2013 01:43 pm

Answer 1

Use DateTime::createFromFormat():

$datetime = DateTime::createFromFormat("D F d, Y H:i a", 'Wed January 9, 2013 01:43 pm');
echo $datetime->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");

Confirmed working