You might want to look at the strtotime function in php. I believe it
would take that date and turn it into a Unix epoch number (i think
that's what you're looking for)

Brett Evanson

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Austin Einter <austin.einter@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
> I have date field, I am storing it as "int" in table.
> When I checked the table in database, the value shows as 1.
>
> My code is as below.
>
> 'INSERT INTO {rs_table} ( uid, name, qualification, email, altemail, phone,
> altphone, dob, yrsofexp, prefworkloc) '
>       ."VALUES (%d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%d', '%d', '%s')",
>      $user->uid,
>      $form_state['values']['persname'],
>      $form_state['values']['hqualif'],
>      $form_state['values']['email'],
>      $form_state['values']['altemail'],
>      $form_state['values']['phone'],
>      $form_state['values']['altphone'],
>     $form_state['values']['birthdate'],
>     $form_state['values']['yearsexp'],
>     $form_state['values']['prefloc']
>   );
>
> Whats the wrong here, is there any API I have to make use of to convert from
> date to int value??
>
> Regards
> Austin
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Austin Einter <austin.einter@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All
>> I have a date field in my form.
>> How do I store/retreive the value into/from MySQL.
>>
>> On google search, I saw people are suggesting to use either "int" or
>> "datetime" type.
>> Please suggest which one needs to be used.
>>
>> If I use int (I hope core uses int), while storing can I just
>> store "form['values']['date1']" as %d and while retreivin, what are the
>> related apis to convert back to date.
>>
>> Regards
>> Austin.
>>
>>
>

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