I would suggest creating the select dropdown so that the value is actually the numeric value of the month. i.e:
<select name="month" id="month" size="1">
<option value="01">January</option>
<option value="02">February</option>
.
.
.
</select>
Then you can do a simple concat before adding to the database.
--Nicole
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Nicole Swan
Web Programming Specialist
Carroll College CCIT
(406)447-4310
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Patrin [mailto:papercrane@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:44 PM
To: Irm Jr
Cc: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: php mysql dates
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:39:01 -0700, Irm Jr <irmjr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sure I understand Y-m-d. But won't the database cry because the Month
> is in text format? (January, february....)? Thanks again.
>
Whoops, I should read *all* the text of the question...
Easiest way to deal with that, IMHO, is strtotime and date.
$mysqlDate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($month.' '.$day.', '.$year));
If you're using dates far in the past or future, though, this won't
work. Better to use a date handling class, such as:
http://pear.php.net/package/Date
> Subject: Re: php mysql dates
>
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:30:24 -0700, Irm Jr <irmjr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all, currently I have a form which prompts for the user to choose a
>
> > date. The dropdown lists are stored into variables:
> >
> > $month //e.g. January, February, ...
> > $day //e.g 1 - 31
> > $year //e.g. 2004 (four digits)
> >
> > then combined into
> >
> > $articleDate
> >
> > How can I manipulate this variable to be in such a format that I can
> > insert the information into a DATE column in a mySQL database.
> >
> > Dates are a bit of a mystery to me as PHP and MySQL handle them
> > differently. Your help is appreciated.
> >
>
> Y-m-d
>
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