Posted by Mike on 10/13/88 11:38

I have a form where the user enters details including a date of
birth...

Day:
<input type=\"text\" name=\"day\" size=2 maxlength=2>
Month:
<input type=\"text\" name=\"month\" size=2 maxlength=2>
Year:
<input type=\"text\" name=\"year\" size=4 maxlength=4>

Then I do the following to convert it into the correct format..

$birthdate = $_POST['year']."-".$_POST['month']."-".$_POST['day'];

Then I insert it into the database...

$add = "insert into personal values ($birthdate)";

The field type in the database it set to 'Date'.

I run an echo on the code to check that $birthdate is storing the
correct data and it is...

1975-08-13

But when I check the database its stored the date as 0000-00-00. Why
is that??

Thanks

Mike

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