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Problem storing dates!
Posted by: Raymond Jender
Date: June 18, 2021 08:08AM

I am new to PHP and mysql so have mercy on me.
I have two dates that I need to store, a current date and
a due date. Here are the particulars:

My HTML:

<form id="form_27395" class="appnitro" method="POST" action="insert.php">
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.
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<label for="currentdate">Today's Date:&nbsp;</label><input id="currentdate" type="date" name="currentdate" Required /> &nbsp;&nbsp;<label for="surveyduedate"><span style="color:red">Survey Due Date:</span>&nbsp;</label><input id="surveryduedate" type="date" name="surveyduedate" Required />

My PHP:

$currentdate = $_POST['currentdate'];
echo nl2br("currentdate = $currentdate\n");
$sql = "INSERT INTO `orderform` (currentdate) VALUE ($currentdate)";

if(mysqli_query($link, $sql)){

echo nl2br("currentdate $currentdate record inserted successfully.\n");

} else {

echo "ERROR: Could not able to execute $sql. " . mysqli_error($link);
}

$surveyduedate = $_POST['surveyduedate'];
echo nl2br("surveyduedate = $surveyduedate\n");
$sql = "INSERT INTO `orderform` (surveyduedate) VALUE ($surveyduedate)";

if(mysqli_query($link, $sql)){

echo nl2br("surveyduedate $surveyduedate record inserted successfully.\n");

} else {

echo "ERROR: Could not able to execute $sql. " . mysqli_error($link);
}

My orderform desc:

mysql> desc orderform;
+---------------+--------------------------+------+-----+----------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+---------------+--------------------------+------+-----+----------+----------------+
| id | int | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| jobnumber | int | NO | | 21060000 | |
| year | int | NO | | 21 | |
| month | int(2) unsigned zerofill | NO | | 06 | |
| currentdate | varchar(10) | YES | | NULL | |
| surveyduedate | varchar(10) | YES | | NULL | |
+---------------+--------------------------+------+-----+----------+----------------+
6 rows in set (0.01 sec)

My echo outputs: (you can ignore everything up to the current and surveydue dates:

row = 0009

Initial idx = 0009
jobyear = 21
currentyear = 21
jobmonth = 06
currentmonth = 06
Index1 = 0009
Index2 = 0010
idx 0010 record inserted successfully.
Index3 = 0010
updatejobnumber3 = 21060010
Jobnumber 21060010 record inserted successfully.
currentdate = 2021-06-18
currentdate 2021-06-18 record inserted successfully.
surveyduedate = 2021-06-19
surveyduedate 2021-06-19 record inserted successfully.

My orderform table after execution:

mysql> select * from orderform;
+----+-----------+------+-------+-------------+---------------+
| id | jobnumber | year | month | currentdate | surveyduedate |
+----+-----------+------+-------+-------------+---------------+
| 1 | 21060001 | 21 | 06 | 2021-06-17 | 2021-06-20 |
| 2 | 21060004 | 21 | 06 | 2021-06-17 | 2021-06-30 |
| 3 | 21060005 | 21 | 06 | 2021-06-17 | 2021-06-30 |
| 4 | 21060006 | 21 | 06 | 2021-06-17 | 2021-06-30 |
| 5 | 21060007 | 21 | 06 | 2021-06-17 | 2021-06-30 |
| 6 | 21060010 | 21 | 06 | NULL | NULL |
| 7 | 21060000 | 21 | 06 | 1997 | NULL |
| 8 | 21060000 | 21 | 06 | NULL | 1996 |
+----+-----------+------+-------+-------------+---------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

As you can see the currentdate and surveryduedate's are munged
in rows 6-8, even though PHP says the correct dates were inserted?
Rows 1-7 were because I had those dates as DEFAULT
while I was troubleshooting.

The NULL and DEFAULT are somewhat confusing to me.

Any ideas what is going on?

Thanks,

Ray

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