Question

I currently have a datetimestamp in the following format when posted from a form: dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm however I am trying to convert it to the appropriate format before MySQL insertion which is in the following format: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss. The ss seconds will always be 0.

Is it correct to use strtotime?

Answer 1

yes so you should use the following:

$form_date = $_POST['form_date'];
$date_insert = date('Y-m-d H:mm:0', strtotime($form_date));