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PHP CRUD Operations with PHP Reading and Writing Reports Working with Dates

Raman Matthew
Raman Matthew
6,127 Points
Posted by Raman Matthew
Raman Matthew
6,127 Points

I don't know to put strtotime function in this task

Function requirement in the correct format

index.php 
<?php

function convert_date_sql($date) {
    //add your code here
  $sql = 'SELECT * FROM projects WHERE date = strtotime"YYYY-MM-DD"';


  try {
        $results = $db->prepare($sql);
        $results->bindValue(1, $date, PDO::PARAM_INT);
        $results->execute();
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        echo "Error!: " . $e->getMessage() . "<br />";
        return false;
    }
    return $results->fetch();
}
Ben Payne
Ben Payne
1,464 Points

Hey Raman,

You'll use a placeholder for date in the sql query. Then assign $date to a string. Use the DateTime object instead of strtotime. It's cleaner:

$date = (new \DateTime)->format('Y-m-d');