Question

I have a strange problem . I am trying to insert some values to database with respective date . In HTML form, the date format is mm/dd/yyyy format. I converted this format to mysql yyyy-mm-dd format using the following PHP (from stackoverflow answer):

echo $date1 = str_replace("/","-",$_POST['date']);
echo $date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date1));

But the above echo , when I run the code it shows like this:
07-30-2012 1970-01-01

Answer 1

echo $date = preg_replace('/^(\d\d)\/(\d\d)\/(\d{4})$/', '$3-$1-$2', $_POST['date']);

I think this code should work fine, but of course you must do all necessary checks before insert it into database.