Question

I’m creating a mobile version of a website. On the normal version we just use a jquery date picker to select the date. I haven’t added anything like this yet on the mobile version because It seemed my Iphone was smart enough to realise it was a date field and give you date scrollers.

But after I’ve selected the date it’s coming up at 7 Aug 2012 which raises a few questions for me… is this standard? or am I going to have to code for different date formats coming from different phones?

Would it be best to use a jquery date picker? (I’m not sure this would be very tidy).

What’s the best way to convert a date like this into a format that php and my database can handle. I have done a bit of looking around google but haven’t found much as of yet.

Answer 1

Try this

<?php
    $today = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('7 Aug 2012'));
    echo $today;
?>

gives 2012-08-07

You can change its output by altering Y-m-d in date()

Refer this!