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Jeff P.
Jeff P.

Reputation: 3004

PHP Obtain Textual Month, Day and Year from input field

I have a textual month, day and year in an input field and I'd like to convert it to a date that will later be inserted into a 'date' field within a MySQL Table.

Textual month, day and year from HTML input field: "Aug 25, 2014".

PHP:

$time_cell_row = 1;
$time_cell_column = 1;

echo "<form name='timesubmit" . $time_cell_row . "' action='enter_time.php?action=timesubmit" .$time_cell_row . "' method='post'>";  

$todays_date = strtotime("today");  // 
$FormattedCurrDate = date('M d, Y', $todays_date);  // Converts to "Aug 25, 2014"

echo "<th><input name=daycell1 type=text value=" . $FormattedCurrDate . "<disabled /></th>";

// The above echo statement displays "Aug" in a table cell instead of "Aug 25, 2014"

echo "<td><input name=submit_time" . $time_cell_row . $time_cell_column . " type=submit></input></td>";
echo  "</form></tr>";


$date1 = $_POST['daycell1'];  // null 
echo "Date from input field: " . $date1; // Nothing is displayed from $date1 since is null

          echo "<br>";

Why is $_POST['daycell1'] showing up as null instead of putting in "Aug 25, 2014"?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1395

Answers (1)

Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 41885

Of course, $date1 is null because you haven't submitted the form yet, so $_POST['daycell1'] is still undefined upon first load.

<input /> tags are void tags, they do not have a closing tag. Use the value="" attribute if you want them to contain a value.

Do not use the disabled attribute. All input tags with the disabled attribute will not be included inside $_POST. Use readonly instead.

// defaults to current day
$FormattedCurrDate = date('M d, Y');

echo '<form method="POST">';
    echo '<table><tr>';
        echo "<th><input name='daycell1' type='hidden' value='$FormattedCurrDate' /></th>";
        echo '<td><input type="submit" name="submit" /></td>';
    echo '</tr></table>';
echo '</form>';

// if submit button is pressed
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    $date = $_POST['daycell1']; // assign the hidden tag value to variable
    echo $date;
}

The date is truncated because you're missing closing quotes.

echo "<th><input name=daycell1 type=text value='" . $FormattedCurrDate . "' /></th>";
                                           //  ^ quotes                   ^ quotes

Sidenote: Always turn on error reporting on development.

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

Upvotes: 2

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