Store php datetime in mysql database

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Create column type TIMESTAMP and set it to NOT NULL. Then pass in NULL during INSERT and MySQL will insert current date and time. This works for me.

Answer 3

Try this:

$my_date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
INSERT INTO my_table (date_time) VALUES ('$my_date');

In the date-format parameter of the date function, use :
'H' for 24hr format
'h' for 12hr format

Answer 4

Remove the strtotime()

$current_date = date("Y-m-d");
INSERT INTO my_table (date_time) VALUES ('$current_date')

If you want to include the hour, minutes and seconds, $current_date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

Answer 5

Don't save it as the Unix Timestamp (which strtotime() outputs), but as "2012-12-02 13:00" into the DATETIME column.

Answer 6

set the 'type' of column named 'date_time' as 'DATETIME' and run the following query:

INSERT INTO my_table (`date_time`) VALUES (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)