Hey everyone. Trying to use a MySQL database for the first time...

It likes dates to be formated into the following YYYY-MM-DD and as far as I know there is no way to change it...although I could be wrong.

Regardless, it doesn't matter to me how it is stored or even displayed later on. What I need to know is how to use asp to get the date formatted this way so the database will accept it.

here is a sample of what I am trying to do.

set newupdate = server.createobject("adodb.recordset")

    sql = "INSERT INTO HomeUpdates (tDate,UpdateString) VALUES ('"&date()&"','"&comment&"')"

    set newupdate = myconn.execute(sql)

there are no errors but it puts 0000-00-00 in the tdate field.

any ideas?

You must have to convert first your date format from vb to php

vb is like mon/date/year
php is year/mon/date

so do like this

str1 = month(Date)
str2 = day(date)
str3 = year(date)
datestrs = str3 & "-" & str1 & "-" & str1

sql = "INSERT INTO HomeUpdates (tDate,UpdateString) VALUES ('"& datestrs &"','"&comment&"')"


Thats all

Dates are always prob i am still havin prob with dates to sort them when i am making a hitcounter with mysql

I came across this problem recently too. My solution:


Dim dateStr As String

dateStr = DateTime.Now.Year & "-"
dateStr &= DateTime.Now.Month & "-"
dateStr &= DateTime.Now.Day & " "
dateStr &= DateTime.Now.Hour & ":"
dateStr &= DateTime.Now.Minute & ":"
dateStr &= DateTime.Now.Second

strSQL = "INSERT INTO users (userJoinDate)"
strSQL &= " VALUES ("
strSQL &= "'" & dateStr & "')"

ok, half way there now...

I used this code:
str1 = month(Date)
str2 = day(date)
str3 = year(date)
datestrs = str3 & "-" & str1 & "-" & str2

works fine except, I need the date from my sql database to get called in. This above code calls in the "current" or "now" date. i want to format the date that already resides in the database. any suggestions?

FYI the following is incorrect:

;;;You must have to convert first your date format from vb to php
;;;vb is like mon/date/year
;;;php is year/mon/date

This question seems very similar to this post of yours:
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=69130

You have been lucky enough to have been given advise from one of the Wrox MVP's. The link he gave you from classicasp.aspfaq.com is a very good one, it has all your answers.

IMO you should ALWAYS wrap functions around dates being inserted into any DB and wrap functions around ALL dates rendered on web pages. This is the function I use to ensure whwn inserting a date into a DB it ALWAYS gets turned into American date format (mm/dd/yyyy)

  FUNCTION amDate(varDate)
    IF DatabaseType = iDT_SQLServer THEN
      IF isNull(varDate) OR Trim(varDate) = "" OR varDate = "Null" THEN
        amDate = "Null"
      ELSE
        amDate = "'" & Month(DateValue(varDate)) & "/" & Day(DateValue(varDate)) & "/" & Year(DateValue(varDate)) & " " & TimeValue(varDate) & "'"
      END IF
    ELSE
      IF isNull(varDate) OR Trim(varDate) = "" OR varDate = "Null" THEN
        amDate = "Null"
      ELSE
        amDate = "'" & Day(DateValue(varDate)) & "/" & Month(DateValue(varDate)) & "/" & Year(DateValue(varDate)) & " " & TimeValue(varDate) & "'"
      END IF
    END IF
  END FUNCTION

Note - you may not want the:

IF DatabaseType = iDT_SQLServer THEN

condition, im sure you can work it out from here...

Wind is your friend
Matt
www.elitemarquees.com.au

I am still confused how to change below:
<%
str1 = month(Date)
str2 = day(date)
str3 = year(date)
datestrs = str3 & "-" & str1 & "-" & str2
%>

to call in the date from my database from the field called "Date_Entered"

I See the the text "Date" calls in the CURRENT Date. i dont want that!

First off, this post is off topic. The OP wanted to know how to insert dates into MySQL, not return a formatted date from MySQL.

This will work:

SELECT Date_Format(Date_Entered, '%d-%m-%y')
FROM table

The column returned will be dd-mm-yyyy. (Switch the formatting flags to get a different type of format such as mm-dd-yyyy)

-Doug

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Here is mr sql statement:
sSQL="SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT('Date_Entered', '%Y %M, %D') FROM unsolved ORDER BY Date_Entered ASC"

it doesnt do anything to the date Date still 5/5/2008
??

Per the offical MySQL documentation that should work: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...functions.html

Something I do notice is that you are passing Date_Entered in as a string literal and not a column reference: sSQL="SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT('Date_Entered', '%Y %M, %D') FROM unsolved ORDER BY Date_Entered ASC"

It has been awhile since I have used MySQL but I am pretty sure this is incorrect.

-Doug

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