Question

I have one field displaying date and time in following format:

30/01/2011, 4:57 pm

I want to store this in mysql using data type datetime.

After getting value from post, I try to store it in database but its storing 0000-00-00 00:00:00 in table.

How can I store above specified values?

Answer 1

You can use date and strtotime like this:

$date = '30/01/2011, 4:57 pm';
$to_mysql_date = date('Y-m-d h:i:s', strtotime(str_replace('/', '-', $date)));
echo $to_mysql_date;

Result:

2011-01-30 04:57:00

Working Example

Now you can use the $to_mysql_date variable to insert the date in MySQL-friendly format 🙂

More Info:

• http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
• http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php