I can\'t believe I can\'t do this, but I want to be able to store the current date and time from php in to a mysql table.
The column in the table is type datetime. I
If you have the date in PHP as a timestamp, you can use the FROM_UNIXTIME function [1]
mysql> insert into table_name values (FROM_UNIXTIME(your_timestamp_here));
Hope it helped
[1]. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_from-unixtime