Question

I am working with dates, in both PHP as well as MySQL. EVerytime I use to convert date in unix format. But this time I have taken field in DB as date. But issue is it is taking yyyy-mm-dd format. I want to store it in dd-mm-yyyy format. Is this possible if I set default setting of DB. or each time I have to explode the dd-mm-yyyy format in PHP and convert it in YYYY-MM-DD format. Its my first query.

Second query is I wish to fetch the records from today’s date. I mean dates after today’s date. Like today then tomorrow then so on…. Is it possible to use order by on date field.

Answer 1

Just use:

$date = date('d-m-Y', strtotime($dateFromDB));

That will convert from MySQL DateTime to the format you have specified.

It is possible to order by date fields, e.g.:

SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE date > [yourDate]
ORDER BY date [DESC | ASC]