Question

I have a series of data that I need to insert into a MySQL table using PHP (Codeigniter).

Problem: One of the data is a timestamp that looks like 06/01/12 01:43 PM. However when I insert it into MySQL timestamp column, it becomes 0000-00-00 00:00:00. How can I format the original format so I can insert it correctly into the timestamp col?

Answer 1

If you wanted to perform the transformation via PHP, it’s quite straightforward:

$oldFormat = "06/01/12 01:43 PM";
$newFormat = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($oldFormat));

strtotime docs

date docs