RE: [PHP-DB] MySQL date formats

Try in PHP. This should take "12/25/2001" in $input_date and convert it to "20011225" in $db_date. Then write $db_date to mySQL database. Perform similar conversion when extracting from database. Or instruct your users to use YYYYMMDD. $thedate = explode("/",$input_date); //$thedate[0]=DD, $thedate[1]=MM, $thedate[2]=YYYY $db_date = date("Ymd", mktime(0,0,0,$thedate[1],$thedate[0],$thedate[2]) ); -----Original Message----- From: nautilis [mailto:josemsala@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:11 AM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] MySQL date formats Hi everyone! I have a little problem with my MySQL database in the way it stores dates. The only format i can have is YYYY/MM/DD, and when i request this date from my php page, this date is insertes in this format. As my website is going to be for spanish users, the correct format would be DD/MM/YYYY, but i have no idea about changing this, either on the database or when i process it with php. Thanks in advance for reading my post. I hope anyone can point me into the right direction. nautilis -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net