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Asked: 2026-05-22T20:01:04+00:00

I’m trying to access each value in a array without serializing it. I than

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I’m trying to access each value in a array without serializing it.
I than want this data stored into a datetime field in MySQL.
The data is received from my form [collect] => Array ( [0] => 01 [1] => 06 [2] => 2011 [3] => 17 [4] => 41 )

How can i store this array data into my database ‘datetime’ field column?

$dd=$_POST('$collect[0]'); 
$mm=$_POST('$collect[1]'); 
$yy=$_POST('$collect[2]'); 
$hh=$_POST('$collect[3]'); 
$ii=$_POST('$collect[4]');
$ddate = ('$yy','$mm','$dd',NULL,'$hh','$ii',NULL)

What i’m trying to do above is take each array value and store it in variable names and than use variable $ddate to store as a datetime in my database. I’m not sure if this is even possible, but i have tried serialize, but date will not insert into database just shows format 0000/00/00 00:00 on database so i’m trying the above to see if this can work.

If there’s a universal way I can use instead of the above, please can someone show me a small example which I can work from.

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  1. Editorial Team

    From what you wrote, I’m assuming that the form field is called collect[] seeing you’re trying to access its indexes.

    However, you’re using wrong method here – $_POST is an array, yet you tried to use it as a function (not that it’s impossible, but for this purpose – it’s really not the way to do it).

    $dd = $_POST['collect'][0];
$mm = $_POST['collect'][1];

    And so on until you reach the last element of your array.

    If you are storing some user-submitted date to the MySQL – yes, there are better ways to do it. If you wish to know what they are, feel free to comment so I’ll post my views on what better ways exist.

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