Have you thought off populating the date automatically using Javascript? Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 5, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Mick Sulley <m...@sulley.info> wrote: Hi, I am fairly new to PHP, can you give me some guidance please. I am creating a form for data entry to load into a MySQL table. One of the fields is type DATE. What is the best way to code the PHP so that it validates that the data entered is a valid date, and inserts into the table. Thanks Mick [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]