Posted by Jim Moseby on 12/27/05 16:35

>
> Hello,
>
> This is propably a more of a MySQL question but here we go anyway...
>
> I have a DB that has dates stored in a table. The date field
> type is Varchar
> (don't ask why... :( The dates are stored using european date format
> DD.MM.YYYY. I need somehow convert the dates to the format MySQL uses
> (YYYY-MM-DD) and re-store them to a table which has a real
> date column for
> them.
>
> I think I need some help/ideas with this...
>
> If I can get this done how can I still display the dates in
> european format
> at my web page? Do I have to break the date to pieces and some how
> re-arrange it to the DD.MM.YYYY format or is the some clever
> function for
> this that can automatically do this?
>
> Thanks
> -Will
>


function eurodate_to_mysqldate($date){
$parts=explode('.',$date);
$day=$parts[0];
$month=$parts[1];
$year=$parts[2];
return($year.'-'.$month.'-'.$day);
}

This (untested) function will take the varchar date you described and
convert it to a date that mysql will like.

JM

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