Question

I have a date I need to store in a date field in mysql. My string is in the following format:

24/02/2011

While it needs to get into the database as:

2011-02-24

I thought I would be able to do it like so in the sql query

STR_TO_DATE('.$_POST['start_date'].', \'%d,%m,%Y\')

But it doesn’t like it.

Is there another method?

Answer 1

$parts = explode("/", $date);
$date = $parts[2] . '-' . $parts[1] . '-' . $parts[0];