Question

I have 1 problem to fix with my facebook registration plugin for a website.
im trying to insert the birthday into the db, facebook format is dd-mm-yyyy…im getting a result 0000-00-00,

<code>
$sql = "INSERT INTO users(facebook, 
                          email, 
                          username, 
                          country, 
                          gender, 
                          dob,
                          password, 
                          profile, 
                          activated, 
                          ip)
        VALUES(?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, 'images/default_profile.png', 1,  ? 

$data = array($fbId, $register['email'],
                     $register['username'],
                     $location,
                     $register['gender'],
                     $register['birthday'],
                     md5($register['password']),
                     $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']
             );

any help would be great, thanks

Answer 1

You need to correctly format the date. In one of my previous tutorials, I used something like this (hopefully it’s still working):

$fb_birthday = date("Y-m-d" , strtotime($fb_birthday));