From: "Angelo Zanetti" <binc2@xxxxxxxxxxx> > This might be slightly off topic but hopefully someone can help. > I have a field that is a varchar and I stored dates in it. But now I want to > change the type of the column to date, but I have a problem that the formats > differ: > > my format: mm/dd/yyyy > mySQL format: yyyy-mm-dd > > So can I either: > a. change the format of the date format > > or > > b. do i have to write a function that changes my format to the mySQL before > changing the column type?? You need to do option (b). Since this is a PHP list, I'd recommend strtotime() and date() to do the formatting. ---John Holmes... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
