Hi Angelo Yes you will have to reformat and he is something that may help you. Hope it does function dateCheckMysql ($date) { list($dateDay, $dateMonth, $dateYear) = explode("/", $date); if ((is_numeric($dateDay)) && (is_numeric($dateMonth)) && (is_numeric($dateYear))) { if (!checkdate($dateMonth, $dateDay, $dateYear)) { return false; } else { return($dateYear."/".$dateMonth."/".$dateDay); } } else { return false; } } function dateCheckForm($date) { list($dateYear, $dateMonth, $dateDay) = explode("-", $date); if ((is_numeric($dateDay)) && (is_numeric($dateMonth)) && (is_numeric($dateYear))) { return($dateDay."/".$dateMonth."/".$dateYear); } else { return false; } } Many Thanks Brett -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php