Question

My script receives multiple variables from the user. Each variable has part of the date/time (year,month,day,hour,min). All the info is stored in separate variables.

I would like to format all that into an acceptable MySQL DATETIME format so it can be saved in a DB.

Answer 1

The mktime() and strtotime() functions are helpful here. Without an example of what you’re working with, I can’t give you a better example than the links.

Then you’d format your timestamp with date():

$mysql_date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $timestamp);