Question

I’m having a little bit of trouble with getting an incremented date into an MySQL database. The field is of type DATE.

First of all I increment the date with the following code:

if($_POST['membershipLength'] == "6 Months") {
    $renew = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")+9, date("d"), date("y"));
}

Then I wish to enter: date("m/d/y", $renew) into the column in the database.

Can anyone see where I’m going wrong? The value it inserts consists of 0s which I’m assuming is the default.

Answer 1

The MYSQL date field has the following format “Y-m-d” so something like “2010-11-04”. You’re trying to insert a value as “2010/04/11”. Change your first parameter to “Y-m-d” and it should work 🙂