Question

I’m using php, and need to parse a date string formatted as dd/mm/yyyy and store it in MySql.
How can I convert the string to a datetime variable in a MySql table?

Answer 1

Probably the best way would be using this: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_str-to-date

SELECT STR_TO_DATE('04/31/2004', '%m/%d/%Y');
-> '2004-04-31'

Or equivalent PHP functions like:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-parse-from-format.php (from PHP 5.3)

A generic PHP function would look like

function convertDate($dateString) {
  return date('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime(str_replace('/','-',$dateString)));
}

or

function convertDate($dateString) {
  $a = explode($dateString('/'));
  return "{$a[2]}-{$a[1]}-{$a[0]} 00:00:00";
}