Question

I need to let the users pick a date (preferable in the format dd/mm/yy) and I decide to try out new HTML5 input date type. However I don’t know how to interpret the value it gives on the server side. The value I get is yyyy-mm-dd. How can I do this?

What if the user uses an older browser that does not support it, how will they enter the date?

Answer 1

1. Just convert the date using PHP’s date functionality (date(), DateTime, etc)

   $datetime = new DateTime('2012-12-06');

   $new_date = $datetime->format('d/m/Y');

2. They will see a plain text field. It will be up to you to make sure they enter a validate date.