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PHP/MySQL – Format date/time

I have input field (name:day1 and varchar) to enter date in my form. It attached with a jquery calendar and picks the date in the format “D, dd M, yy” (I WANT TO PICK LIKE THIS AND CANT CHANGE FORMAT). I want to convert and save into mysql date format into table. How is this possible?

$insert_query = 'insert into '.$this->tablename.'(
            venue,
            day1,
            day2,
            day3,
            day4,
            day5,
            day6,
            day7,
            day8,
            day9,
            day10,
            city,
            contactperson,
            )
            values
            (
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['venue']) . '",
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day1']) . '",
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day2']) . '",
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day3']) . '",
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day4']) . '",
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day5']) . '",
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day6']) . '",
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day7']) . '",
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day8']) . '",
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day9']) . '",
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day10']) . '",
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['city']) . '",
            "' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['contactperson']) . '",
            )';

day 1 to day 10 are the dates want to convert…

Answer 1

or in the sql statement you can do that:

$insert_query = 'insert into '.$this->tablename.'(             
    venue,             
    day1,             
    day2,             
    day3, 
    (.......) )             
    values             
    ("' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['venue']) . '",             
     STR_TO_DATE("' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day1']) . '","%W, %d %M, %y"),             
     STR_TO_DATE("' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day2']) . '","%W, %d %M, %y"),
     STR_TO_DATE("' . $this->SanitizeForSQL($formvars['day1']) . '","%W, %d %M, %y"),   
     (.......) )';

The “%W, %d %M, %y” bit must be in the same format as the date you get from your calendar…

To check all date functions and dates format see these links:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format

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

I hope that helps…