Enter the date when the checkbox is selected - php

Question

I'm trying to make it so that when the checkbox is selected it puts today's date in the database, I tried using timestamp but it puts it in all the spaces in the column, I'm a beginner in php
The code I made was this:
<?php
if (isset($_POST['Abate'])){
$Abate="Sim";
$data=time();
$DiaAbate= date("Y/m/d", $data);
}
else{
$Abate="Nao";
$DiaAbate="";
}
?>

Answer 1

You have not included your table structure (CREATE TABLE statement) so I have assumed you have a DATE column for storing $DiaAbate. I have also assumed that the submitted date is in 22/11/2022 format. If you are using a different format for the POSTed date value, you will need to change the format string passed into DateTime::createFromFormat().
Your current code is vulnerable to SQL Injection as you are combining your static strings with user input without any validation. The simple example below uses a prepared statement for the insert query -
if (isset($_POST['Abate'])){
$Abate = 'Sim';
// create a date from the posted date string adn format it
// see https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php
$DiaAbate = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $_POST['DiaAbate'])->format('Y-m-d');
} else {
$Abate = 'Nao';
$DiaAbate = null;
}
$query = 'INSERT INTO pc (Abate, DiaAbate) VALUES (?, ?)';
$query_run = mysqli_execute_query($con, $query, [$Abate, $DiaAbate]);
if ($query_run) {
$_SESSION['status'] = 'Inserted Succesfully';
header('Location: indexx.php');
} else {
$_SESSION['status'] = 'Not Inserted';
header('Location: indexx.php');
}