Question

I’m trying to insert the current date from a php form into a database.

My query is:

   $sql3="INSERT INTO orderDetails (compName, package, cost, date) VALUES ('$companyName', '$package', '$cost_record', 'date()')";

This produces the following: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 which obviously isn’t right.

Can anyone recommend how to get this to display the correct date/time?

Also, I need it in the following format: yyyymmddhhmmss – Is this possible? How would I go about it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You should use php’s function time() or mysql’s UNIX_TIMESTAMP this is an int(11) and used like so:

INSERT INTO orderDetails (compName, package, cost, date) VALUES ('$companyName', '$package', '$cost_record', UNIX_TIMESTAMP --

Then you create a visual timestamp from php using the date() function.. during your loop in PHP.