Question

I have a simple textfield with the type defied to be as date which attached with a jquery datepicker(). Now i have set the dateFormat() to be dd-mm-yy. All this works fine. But as i know MySql requires date in yyyy-mm-dd. So i was just wondering if i can convert that date format either using php or javascript to enter into the database.

E.g var date = $('#order_date').val(); gives value 26-2-2012. I need to convert this into 2012-02-26.

Note: There is also a 0 being added to the month.

Answer 1

Use PHP:

$date = $_POST['date']; // e.g. 06-08-2011
$mysql_date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date));

or

$date = explode('-', $_POST['date']);
$mysql_date = $date[2].'-'.$date[1].'-'.$date[1];

use $mysql_date to insert into the database.