I've got a PHP/MySQL script that is yielding strange results on a date field. All along the process, my dates are fine until the very end. The final result has every entry in the date field as '0000-00-00'. I'm totally stuck and don't know what else to do. I can tell that this is an issue with PHP not interpreting this as a date, but I don't know how to fix it. Here is my code:
$sql = "CREATE TABLE temp_workouts (my_date date, sg_id int(11), loc_id int(11))";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
if (!$result) {
$tag_success = "failure";
$tag_message = mysql_error();
echo encodeJSON($tag_success, $tag_message);
die();
}
$sql = "SELECT * FROM my_table";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
$my_date = $row['my_date'];
echo $my_date . " "; //<--this output looks perfect
$sql = "INSERT INTO temp_table (my_date) VALUES ($my_date)";
$result2 = mysql_query($sql);
}
die();
When I flip over to MyPHPAdmin and look at the table, the entire column my_date contains '0000-00-00'. How can I get PHP to recognize this as a 'Y-m-d' formatted date? Thanks. I appreciate any help.