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I’ve got a form with 2 input fields and .The user selects the date from an html5 popup calendar picker, types in the time, and submits the form to a mysql db. I’m having trouble getting the date and time fields to validate/upload to the db.

In my MySQL db I have a table called appointments with a column called curdate that has a type of DATE; another column is called curtime with a type of TIME.

My PHP file has the PHP validation and SQL actions at the top of the file and the sticky html form at the bottom. The form uses to send the form

Here is the code:

$td = date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $phpdate );
$phpdate = strtotime( $td );
if(isset($_POST['submitted'])) {
    require_once('mysqli_connect.php');
    $errors=array();
if(empty($_POST['curdate'])) {
            $errors[]='Your date did not match';
        } else {
            $td=mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,trim($_POST['curdate']));
    }

    if(empty($_POST['curtime'])) {
            $errors[]='Your time is empty';
    } else {
        $tt=$_POST['curtime'];
    }
if(empty($errors)) {
    $q="INSERT INTO users (first_name,last_name,email,curdate,curtime,physician,reason) VALUES ('$fn','$ln','$e','$td','$tt','$phys','$reason')";
    $r=@mysqli_query($dbc,$q);

    if($r) {
        echo '<h1>Thanks</h1>
        <p>You are now registered</p><p><br/></p>';
    } else {
        echo '<h1>System Error</h1>
        <p class="error">You could not be registered</p>';
        echo '<p>'.mysqli_error($dbc).'<br/><br/>Query:'.$q.'</p>';
    }

    mysqli_close();
    include('includes/footer.html');
    exit();
    } else {
    echo '<h1>Error</h1>
    <p class="error">The following errors occurred:<br/>';
    foreach ($errors as $msg) {
        echo "-$msg<br/>\n";
    }
    echo '</p><p> Please try again</p><p><br/></p>';
    }
    mysqli_close($dbc);
}

Answer 1

Mysql Or Mysqli Supports date format as ‘yyyy-mm-dd’ so u need to convert date and time in proper format before inserting in DB

If you want to insert current date and time when the user submits the form then Use following Query

    INSERT INTO users (first_name,last_name,email,curdate,curtime,physician,reason) 
               VALUES ('$fn','$ln','$e',CURDATE(),CURTIME(),'$phys','$reason')

But if you want to insert date from form field then do following

    $td=$_POST['curdate'];
    $tt=$_POST['curtime'];

    $td=date('Y-m-d',strtotime($td));    //Converts date to 'yyyy-mm-dd' acceptable to mysql
    $tt=date('H:i:s',strtotime($tt));    //converts time to HH:mm:ss

    //Now apply Your Query as
     INSERT INTO users (first_name,last_name,email,curdate,curtime,physician,reason) 
               VALUES ('$fn','$ln','$e','$td','$tt','$phys','$reason')