php convert date to MySQL date

Question

I need to convert a date in this format:

November 28, 2009

to a MySQL date format:

2009-28-11

Answer 1

There are two options you can use which are strtotime or preg_split and sprintf. I recommend you use strtotime. The structure goes like this:

$date = 'November 28 2009';
$sqldate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date));

Make sure the Y is capital so it reads as 0000 otherwise it will read 00.