Re: Re: Date Conversion

You might want to look into date conversion on the MySQL side: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Date_and_time_functions.html Look for DATE_FORMAT(date,format) Paul On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:16:59 +0200, Torsten Roehr <roehr@zilleon.com> wrote: > >"Ng Hwee Hwee" <hhwee@towa.com.sg> wrote in message > news:009801c484f1$d11c8af0$800101df@hweehwee... > > > >Hi all, > > > >can someone kindly point me to a resource that converts all kinds of > possible date inputs into MySQL format of YYYY-MM-DD? > > > >example of formats to be converted includes: > > > >d/m/yy > >d/m/yyyy > >d/mm/yy > >d/mm/yyy > >dd/mm/yy > >dd/mm/yyy > >d/mmm/yy > >d/mmm/yyyy > >dd/mmm/yy > >dd/mmm/yyyy > > > >yy - 2 digit representation of year > >yyyy - ful numeric representation of year > >m - numeric representation of month, without leading zero > >mm - numeric representation of month, with leading zero > >mmm - short textual representation of month > >d - day of month without leading zero > >dd - day of month with leadin zero > > > >thanx! > > > >hwee > > This question belongs more to the general list, but anyway: > > You can use strtotime() to convert various formats to a timestamp. Then use > date() to convert it back to your preferred date format: > > $timestamp = strtotime($inputDate); > $isoDate = date('Y-m-d', $timestamp); > > http://de2.php.net/strtotime > http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php > > Regards, Torsten Roehr > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >