Question

I have this problem with saving a date into a MySQL database.

I have this input field:

<input type="date" name="theDate" id="theDate" required></p>

Before I save it to the database I format the string to a date like this:

date('Y.m.d', strtotime($table['day']));

The database field is a DATE but it only saves 0000-00-00.

When I echo out the date before saving it, it is correctly 2012-02-23.

I hope anyone can tell me how this is done.

Answer 1

date('Y.m.d', strtotime($table['day']));

outputs 2012.02.23 not 2012-02-23 … you need

date('Y-m-d', strtotime($table['day']));

See this section on MySQL Date and Time literals