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Insert Date Problem

Thread began 3/10/2010 11:34 am by fabianmcelhill370894 | Last modified 3/15/2010 3:53 pm by Jason Byrnes | 3193 views | 11 replies |

fabianmcelhill370894

Insert Date Problem

I have set up a simple mysql DB with 2 fields, Name and Date (I have used DATE in MySQL). I then have used Dataassist to create insert, detail and report pages. When I post a date on insert page using 30-04-2010 it just displays 0000-00-00 on the detail page. I am new to database, PHP and MySQL. Can anyone point me in the direction of what I am doing wrong?

Thanks for any help in advance?

Fabian

The code of insert page is:

<?php require_once('Connections/connDate.php'); ?>
<?php require_once("WA_DataAssist/WA_AppBuilder_PHP.php"); ?>
<?php
// WA Application Builder Insert
if (isset($_POST["Insert_x"])) // Trigger
{
$WA_connection = $connDate;
$WA_table = "datetestTbl";
$WA_sessionName = "WADA_Insert_datetestTbl";
$WA_redirectURL = "datetestTbl_Detail.php";
$WA_keepQueryString = false;
$WA_indexField = "id";
$WA_fieldNamesStr = "id|Date|Name";
$WA_fieldValuesStr = "".((isset($_POST["id"]))?$_POST["id"]:"") ."" . "|" . "".((isset($_POST["Date"]))?$_POST["Date"]:"") ."" . "|" . "".((isset($_POST["Name"]))?$_POST["Name"]:"") ."";
$WA_columnTypesStr = "none,none,NULL|',none,NULL|',none,''";
$WA_fieldNames = explode("|", $WA_fieldNamesStr);
$WA_fieldValues = explode("|", $WA_fieldValuesStr);
$WA_columns = explode("|", $WA_columnTypesStr);
$WA_connectionDB = $database_connDate;
mysql_select_db($WA_connectionDB, $WA_connection);
if (!session_id()) session_start();
$insertParamsObj = WA_AB_generateInsertParams($WA_fieldNames, $WA_columns, $WA_fieldValues, -1);
$WA_Sql = "INSERT INTO `" . $WA_table . "` (" . $insertParamsObj->WA_tableValues . ") VALUES (" . $insertParamsObj->WA_dbValues . ")";
$MM_editCmd = mysql_query($WA_Sql, $WA_connection) or die(mysql_error());
$_SESSION[$WA_sessionName] = mysql_insert_id();
if ($WA_redirectURL != "") {
if ($WA_keepQueryString && $WA_redirectURL != "" && isset($_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]) && $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] !== "" && sizeof($_POST) > 0) {
$WA_redirectURL .= ((strpos($WA_redirectURL, '?') === false)?"?":"&").$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"];
}
header("Location: ".$WA_redirectURL);
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Insert datetestTbl</title>
<link href="WA_DataAssist/styles/Refined_Pacifica.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="WA_DataAssist/styles/Arial.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body>

<div class="WADAInsertContainer">
<form action="datetestTbl_Insert.php" method="post" name="WADAInsertForm" id="WADAInsertForm">
<div class="WADAHeader">Insert Record</div>
<div class="WADAHorizLine"><img src="WA_DataAssist/images/_tx_.gif" alt="" height="1" width="1" border="0" /></div>
<table class="WADADataTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<th class="WADADataTableHeader">Date:</th>
<td class="WADADataTableCell"><input type="text" name="Date" id="Date" value="" size="32" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="WADADataTableHeader">Name:</th>
<td class="WADADataTableCell"><input type="text" name="Name" id="Name" value="" size="32" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div class="WADAHorizLine"><img src="WA_DataAssist/images/_tx_.gif" alt="" height="1" width="1" border="0" /></div>
<div class="WADAButtonRow">
<table class="WADADataNavButtons" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="WADADataNavButtonCell" nowrap="nowrap"><input type="image" name="Insert" id="Insert" value="Insert" alt="Insert" src="WA_DataAssist/images/Pacifica/Refined_insert.gif" /></td>
<td class="WADADataNavButtonCell" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="datetestTbl_Results.php" title="Cancel"><img border="0" name="Cancel" id="Cancel" alt="Cancel" src="WA_DataAssist/images/Pacifica/Refined_cancel.gif" /></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input name="WADAInsertRecordID" type="hidden" id="WADAInsertRecordID" value="" />
</div>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

the mySQL database will only accept the date in the format of yyyy-mm-dd.


the line of code that is setting up the insert is:

php:
$WA_fieldValuesStr = "".((isset($_POST["id"]))?$_POST["id"]:"") ."" . "|" . "".((isset($_POST["Date"]))?$_POST["Date"]:"") ."" . "|" . "".((isset($_POST["Name"]))?$_POST["Name"]:"") ."";




you can edit this to convert the date you enter to the proper format using the strtotime() and date() functions:

php:
$WA_fieldValuesStr = "".((isset($_POST["id"]))?$_POST["id"]:"") ."" . "|" . "".((isset($_POST["Date"]))?date("Y-m-d", strtotime($_POST["Date"])):"") ."" . "|" . "".((isset($_POST["Name"]))?$_POST["Name"]:"") ."";
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fabianmacs370894

Date Issue Solved

Jason,

That worked a treat on the insert page.

For the detail page I just had to add:

<?php echo date('d/m/Y',strtotime($row_WADAdatetestTbl['Date'])); ?>

All seems to be working perfect now.

Many thanks for the help.

Best Regards,

Fabian

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

glad to hear it is working.

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fabianmacs370894

Update page not working correctly

Jason, thanks for sending through that info. I have now got most of it up and running except for the update page. When I insert a new record, all is fine, when I go to the update page the correct date format is showing, problem is when I change the date and submit it again I just get an empty page and it doesn't post the new changes to the DB. Any solutions?

Thanks,

Fabian

Attached Files
dataassist.zip
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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

if the page is blank, it means a php error is occurring but error reporting is turned off, add the following code at line 1 to turn error reporting on:

php:
<?php

error_reporting
(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors','on');
?>
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fabianmacs370894

Error on Update page

Fatal error: Call to undefined function  strtotime() in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/events/datetestTbl_Update.php on line 59

LINE 59
$WA_fieldValuesStr = "".((isset($_POST["event_date"]))?date("d-m-Y",*strtotime($WADAdatetestTbl['event_date'])):"") ."" . "|" . "".((isset($_POST["event_name"]))?$_POST["event_name"]:"") ."";

It still shows the date format on the update page as yyyy-mm-dd, it needs to be dd-mm-yyyy.

I have attached the update page file.

Thanks.

Attached Files
datetestTbl_Update.php.zip
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John LangerBeta Tester

You have an * in front of strtotime (*strtotime) I don't think that's supposed to be there.

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fabianmacs370894

Update page error

John,

Thanks for your replay. Tried removing the * and it still shows error

$WA_fieldValuesStr = "".((isset($_POST["event_date"]))?date("d-m-y",*strtotime($WADAdatetestTbl['event_date'])):"") ."" . "|" . "".((isset($_POST["event_name"]))?$_POST["event_name"]:"") ."";

The line works fine on the insert page. Do you think it should work the same for update page?

Thanks, Fabian

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John LangerBeta Tester

Fabian,

I'm close but not close enough I'm afraid. And I've now run out of time as I'm going out. However this is where I'm at.

Change line 105 to

php:
<td class="WADADataTableCell"><input type="text" name="date_name" id="date_name" value="<?php echo date('d/m/Y',strtotime($row_WADAdatetestTbl['event_date'])); ?>" size="32" /></td>

That will display the existing date in the format you like.

The thing that I'm not getting is how to convert that back so the MySql will accept it. The example that Jason gave does not seem to work when Updating a record.

How ever you do have an error in Line 55. You have the date set to d-m-Y and it should be Y-m-d which is the MySql way of writing it.

This is the line in full but it still updates with 000-00-00 so I'm stumped now and have no time to continue to play with it. Perhaps someone else will come to our rescue.

php:
$WA_fieldValuesStr = "".((isset($_POST["event_date"]))?date("Y-m-d", strtotime($_POST["event_date"])):"") ."" . "|" . "".((isset($_POST["event_name"]))?$_POST["event_name"]:"") ."";



Incidentally you had the wrong field name in line 105. I think it was date_name instead of event_date so that was causing an error as well.

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