How do I convert a string into a value I can upload to mysql date field.
Specifically, I have a user select a month, day and year from
drop-downs, then I want them submitted to one date field. Thanks!
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Noyb wrote: How do I convert a string into a value I can upload to mysql date field. Specifically, I have a user select a month, day and year from drop-downs, then I want them submitted to one date field. Thanks! Steve.
You want to convert a string to a unix timestamp, then you can use the functions
in mysql to convert the timestamp to mysql native. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
Also, use Mishoo's dHTML calendar: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jscalendar/
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Rodriguez contained the following: How do I convert a string into a value I can upload to mysql date field. Specifically, I have a user select a month, day and year from drop-downs, then I want them submitted to one date field. Thanks! Steve.
You want to convert a string to a unix timestamp, then you can use the functions in mysql to convert the timestamp to mysql native.
Why, when he can arrange the dropdown boxes to provide a suitable date?
Say the boxes return year month and day
function make_mysql_date ($y,$m,$d){
$array = array($y,$m,$d) ;
$mysql_date = implode("/", $array);
return $mysql_date;
}
Not that I usually bother with MySql's date format these days. Mostly I
simply store a Unix timestamp.
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>> How do I convert a string into a value I can upload to mysql date field. Specifically, I have a user select a month, day and year from drop-downs, then I want them submitted to one date field. Thanks! Steve.
You want to convert a string to a unix timestamp, then you can use the functions in mysql to convert the timestamp to mysql native.
This doesn't work very well for some applications. It's problematical
for anything dealing with a date of birth of a living person, and
even more problematical for genealogy. (Some implementation treat
a UNIX time_t as signed, yielding a time range of about 1901-2038,
which is too small. Even worse is the ones that interpret it as
unsigned, giving a time range of about 1970-2106, which is really
bad if your application deals with people receiving retirement
benefits).
Even the MySQL native date format has problems if you can trace
your ancestors back more than about 2,004 years.
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