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You can start by using strtotime() &nbsp; <br />
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<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_date.asp" rel="ugc">http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_date.asp</a><br />
<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_strtotime.asp" rel="ugc">http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_strtotime.asp</a><br />
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Then you can use date() to format the date however you want. <br />
<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_date.asp" rel="ugc">http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_date.asp</a>
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You can start by using strtotime()  

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_date.asp [http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_date.asp]
http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_strtotime.asp [http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_strtotime.asp]

Then you can use date() to format the date however you want.
http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_date.asp [http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_date.asp]

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fishboy - thank you. that's a great option. I have it on my site but I want to be able to remove the drop down for format options and have the default be the second option yy-mm-dd to match MySQL, do you know how I can change the default so I can remove the dropdown? If I remove the dropdown now, it reverts back to the mm/dd/yy default.
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fishboy - thank you. that's a great option. I have it on my site but I want to be able to remove the drop down for format options and have the default be the second option yy-mm-dd to match MySQL, do you know how I can change the default so I can remove the dropdown? If I remove the dropdown now, it reverts back to the mm/dd/yy default.

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Ignore that. I figured it out. Thank you! A+
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Ignore that. I figured it out. Thank you! A+

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I'm building a PHP database front end with a MySQL backend and it's great, MySQL is perfect. Well almost. The way you enter dates here is not intuitive. I want to create some kind of mask that will allow me to enter a date as MM-DD-YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY and then have it resolve to YYYY-MM-DD. Any help is appreciated. 
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I'm building a PHP database front end with a MySQL backend and it's great, MySQL is perfect. Well almost. The way you enter dates here is not intuitive. I want to create some kind of mask that will allow me to enter a date as MM-DD-YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY and then have it resolve to YYYY-MM-DD. Any help is appreciated. 

MySQL Date Input

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