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Asked: 2026-05-27T22:38:59+00:00

I’ve have a date field in my table that stores dates from a form

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I’ve have a date field in my table that stores dates from a form in a Weekday, Day Month, Year string.

Example: Wednesday, 02, November 2010

the field is also a varchar.

can I loop through the entire table with a php script to convert the dates to a mysql date format or perform this with an SQL query?

I’m not sure that I can preform some certain statistical reports that involve picking out certain dates and date ranges in the format I have now. What are my options?

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  1. Editorial Team

    No need to get PHP involved. It can be done directly in MySQL:

    ALTER TABLE yourtable ADD fixeddate date;
UPDATE yourtable SET fixeddate=STR_TO_DATE(bad_date_field, '%W, %d, %M %Y');

    relevant docs here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_str-to-date

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