PHP- insert todays date into MySql field not working

Question

Pretty simple to some people, but pretty new to PHP. I just want to insert today date into a date field in MySQL

Thanks in advance.

$sql = "UPDATE IA SET IASubmitted ='yes', IASubmittedDate='date('Y-m-d')' WHERE Reference='$Reference'";
$result=mysql_query($sql); 

Answer 1

I think the simplest answer is as follows:

$sql = "UPDATE IA SET IASubmitted ='yes', IASubmittedDate='". date('Y-m-d'). "' WHERE Reference='$Reference'";
$result=mysql_query($sql); 

Answer 2

try this :

$date = date('Y-m-d');

sql = "UPDATE IA SET IASubmitted ='yes', IASubmittedDate='". $date. "' WHERE Reference='$Reference'";
$result=mysql_query($sql); 

hope this can help you.

Answer 3

Try this

sql = "UPDATE IA SET IASubmitted ='yes', IASubmittedDate='" DATE_FORMAT(NOW(),'%Y-%m-%d') "' WHERE Reference='$Reference'";
$result=mysql_query($sql);

Answer 4

You can simply do this without the php date() function by using MySQLs CURDATE() function. This should look like this

$sql = "UPDATE IA SET IASubmitted ='yes', IASubmittedDate=CURDATE() WHERE Reference='$Reference'";
$result=mysql_query($sql); 

Answer 5

You can also use:

$sql = "UPDATE IA SET IASubmitted ='yes', IASubmittedDate=now() WHERE Reference='$Reference'"; $result=mysql_query($sql);

This will work both: when IASubmittedDate is date or IASubmittedDate is datetime