Question

I can not seem to get the date to insert from my form into my data base. Please help!

here is my form

echo '

<h1>Enter New Report</h1>
<form action="submitreport.php" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">

 Date: <input type="text" name="Date" value='.$myDate.' /><br />
 Report:<br><TEXTAREA NAME=Report ROWS=4 COLS=40></TEXTAREA><br />
 <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
 </form>

 ';
 ?> 

Here is what I have written to submit it to the database

$insertdate = trim($_POST['Date']);

$insertdate = mysql_real_escape_string($insertdate);
    $insertdate = date('m/d/Y', $insertdate);

echo $insertdate;


mysql_query("INSERT INTO `Reports`(`Date`, `Report`) VALUES ('$insertdate','$_POST[Report]')") or die("load1 -" .  mysql_error());


mysql_close();

echo "Thank You!" . " -" . "<a href='index.php' style='text-decoration:none;color:#ff0099;'> Return Home</a>";
?>

Answer 1

I’m only guessing, but your Date field in the database is either of type date or datetime. The format of these are YYYY-mm-dd. Try changing your code to:

$insertdate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($_POST['Date']));

Also, you aren’t converting the date to a timestamp before formatting it. I’ve added strtotime() on the data here as well.