Setting PHP date time format - php

Question

I have a column in a MySQL table that is of type 'datetime'.
How do I get a value from php of the current date and time with the format - for example: "2014-11-09 15:06:51" and set into a variable?
thanks.

Answer 1

check this PHP documentation for more clarification.
$DateTime = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
Ref

Answer 2

You can use CURDATE() of MySql. No need of using php for this.
INSERT INTO `db`.`data1` (
`id` ,
`date`
)
VALUES (
'2', CURDATE()
)
See for more documentation http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_curdate

Answer 3

Well if you're doing this in a class you could use my DateTime getter and setter. Assumes that $this->Date is a php DateTime object and you're using mysql with a DATETIME column.
Here's what using it looks like:
$this->setDate($whatever_date); // give it a timestamp, mysql DATETIME, or anything that can be read by strtotime()
// Need to put the date into mysql? Use this:
$this->getDate('mysql');
// Need to get the date so a person can read it?
$this->getDate('human');
// want it as a timestamp?
$this->getDate('unix');
Here's the methods:
// accepts 'human', 'mysql', 'unix', or custom date() string
function getDate($format='human'){
if(get_class($this->Date)!='DateTime') return FALSE;
try{
switch ($format) {
case 'human':
return $this->Date->format('M j, Y g:i a'); // Show date and time
// return $this->Date->format('M j, Y'); // Just the date
break;
case 'mysql':
return $this->Date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
break;
case 'unix':
return $this->Date->format('U'); // may return a negative number for old dates
break;
default:
return $this->Date->format($format);
break;
}
} catch (Exception $e){
throw new Exception('Can not use that format for getting DateTime');
return FALSE;
}
}
// Sets as a DateTime object - accepts either a timestamp or a date() string
function setDate($date){
try{
if(is_numeric($date) && (int)$date==$date){ // timestamp
$this->Date = new DateTime(date('F j, Y, g:i a', $date));
} else {
$this->Date = new DateTime($date);
}
} catch (Exception $e){
throw new Exception('Can not set the given value ('.$date.') as DateTime');
return FALSE;
}
return TRUE;
}
If you're not using classes you would want to combine them into a single function that takes the format you have and returns the format you need.