Re: [PHP] date formatting



On Wed, August 29, 2007 4:12 pm, Mike Ryan wrote:
I would like to have my users input the date formate as mm-dd-yyyy
mysql
wants the data to come down as yyyy-mm-dd.

The question I have is how do I convert from the mm-dd-yyyy to
yyyy-mm-dd so
that I can write it out to the database?

You could tell MySQL to use the mm-dd-yyyy input format I think. Ask
on a mysql list.

In PHP:

<?php
if (preg_match('|([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{4})|', $date,
$parts){
$m = $parts[1];
$d = $parts[2];
$y = $parts[3];
$date_sql = mysql_real_escape_string("$y-$m-$d"));
}
else die("Invalid date input.");
?>

die() is probably a bit extreme for this, but it's a start.

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