Managing date formats differences between PHP and MySQL

Question

I\'m writing my first PHP app that has to directly deal with dates, and thus to directly deal with the fact that PHP and MySQL have different date formats.

My questi

Answer 1

I would recommend you keep everything in mysql format until you need to display it to the user, then use strtotime() to get a unix timestamp and date() to format it.

If you throw in some Hungarian Notation it's even harder to go wrong:

$ymdDateAdded = date('Y-m-d');
$timeDateAdded = strtotime($ymdDateAdded);
$userDateadded = date('j F Y', $timeDateAdded);