Question

I have a bunch of records with dates formatted as a string such as ’04/17/2009′

I want to convert them to a mysql datetime field

I plan to use a foreach loop to read the old date value and insert the newly formatted value into a new field in each record

what would be the best way to convert that string…I thought php might have a way to do it automatically?

thanks

Answer 1

First, convert the string into a timestamp:

$timestamp = strtotime($string);

Then do a

date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $timestamp);