Date saves to mysql database as 0000-00-00

Question

I have this code snipet here:

    // Insert data into mysql 
     $data = "'".date('Y-m-d', strtotime(str_replace('-', '/', $data3)))."'";
     echo $data;
     $sql="INSERT INTO assets(dateOfPurchase) VALUES ('$data')";
     $result=mysql_query($sql);

I get this error:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '2015-10-11'

Kindly help me sort it out.

Answer 1

Your immediate problem is that you have the single quotes appearing twice, once in the definition of $date , once in the query. You only need to include them once:

 $data = "'".date('Y-m-d', strtotime(str_replace('-', '/',        $data3)))."'";
echo $data;
 $sql="INSERT INTO assets(dateOfPurchase) VALUES ($data)";
 $result=mysql_query($sql);

Your more serious problems are:

• You are using "mysql_" functions, which are no longer supported.
• You should not be putting parameters directly into query strings. You should be using parameterized queries.

Answer 2

That's because you are adding extra quotes. Use it like this:

$data = date('Y-m-d', strtotime(str_replace('-', '/',        $data3)));

$sql = "INSERT INTO assets(dateOfPurchase) VALUES ('$data')";