some thing like this $date ="24-04-2009" $time = strtotime($date); then $newdate =date("Y-m-d",$time) this will give you the format you need --- On Tue, 4/28/09, Vijay Kansal <vijay_kansal2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Vijay Kansal <vijay_kansal2@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: PHP-MYSQL Date Help To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 11:22 PM Hi as per my understanding you have to use the mysql function which converts str to date, for example insert into <tablename> SET <date column name> = STR_TO_DATE( '23/10/2008' , '%d/%m/%Y') this will work for you and you can use any format you like. Thanks, Vijay Kumar --- On Tue, 4/28/09, SoftMasters <s_soft_masters@ yahoo.com> wrote: From: SoftMasters <s_soft_masters@ yahoo.com> Subject: Re: PHP-MYSQL Date Help To: php-objects@ yahoogroups. com Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 9:23 PM just do this before the insert/update query. $dbDate = date("Y-m-d" , strtotime($formDate )); Regards, SoftMasters --- On Tue, 4/28/09, Hari KT <kthari85@yahoo. co.in> wrote: From: Hari KT <kthari85@yahoo. co.in> Subject: Re: PHP-MYSQL Date Help To: php-objects@ yahoogroups. com Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 7:23 PM Hi , MySQL store date as YY-MM-DD , something like this 2009-04-15 . So you need to do the appropriate function to convert it . You can use the explode method list($month, $date, $year) = explode( "/", $data) ; and combine and store in MySQL . Cheers Hari K T http://www.harikt. com/ http://ijust4u. blogspot. com/ --- On Tue, 28/4/09, rai.suman <sumanraic001@ yahoo.com> wrote: From: rai.suman <sumanraic001@ yahoo.com> Subject: PHP-MYSQL Date Help To: php-objects@ yahoogroups. com Date: Tuesday, 28 April, 2009, 10:34 AM Hello Everyone! How is life there, Hope everything is cool and fine. Actually, I have a problem: 1) I have a Date column in MySQL database. I insert date from HTML form in 27-04-2009 (dd-mm-yyyy) format. But in mysql database it stores wrong data like (2704-02-02) like this. How it happen. Anybody can help me ? How to convert MySQL date and PHP DATE ?? Regards & Thank You, Suman K. Rai Now surf faster and smarter ! Check out the new Firefox 3 - Yahoo! Edition http://downloads. yahoo.com/ in/firefox/ ?fr=om_email_ firefox [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]