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Converting PHP Date dd/mm/yyyy to SQL date YYYY-MM-DD

I'm having an annoying problem.

Got a date textbox where the entry is dd/mm/yyyy and I've converted the date for SQL into YYYY-MM-DD.

Then I run the checkdate command to confirm it's a valid date ;

it checks the date fine, but then, when putting it into the DB it puts it in mm-dd-yyyy format.

So, if I enter 31/7/2008 it'll convert the 31 into months and end p with some date thats in 2010!

$Header = $_POST['Header'];
$Yeargroup = $_POST['Yeargroup'];
$Details = $_POST['Details'];
$Footer = $_POST['Footer'];
$Deadline = $_POST['Deadline'];
$Date = $_POST['Date'];
 
 
list($DD,$MM,$YY) = explode("/",$Date);
if(!checkdate($MM,$DD,$YY))
	{
    echo 'The date is invalid, please enter a date in the format 
DD/MM/YY';
 
}else{
 
$Date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($Date));
 
$Query="INSERT INTO bulletin (Header, YearGroup, Details, Deadline, Footer, Date)VALUES 
('$Header','$Yeargroup','$Details','$Deadline','$Footer','$Date')";
 
mysql_query($Query) or die ('Error updating database');
 
printf ("Bulletin Item Added<br><br><br>Refreshing...");
 
}
?>

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jaxstorm

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I've now discovered that the problem is with the following line of code, and that the checkdate function is fine, question changed

$Date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($Date));

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