save the date in a php variable

[Balg]

hi guys

can anybody help me?
how can i save the date in a php variable?

greetings from switzerland
balg

[rgraham]

I am not 100% sure what you mean, but assuming you want to pass the date the user has selected into php for further processing ... put the text box inside a form, set the form method="post" and action="[your page filename].php". Also give the text area a name, i.e. name="date"
then in your PHP script, get the data with $_REQUEST["date"]

If you want to use the date in PHP at all, you probably want to convert the date string (which is in european standard notation) to a unix timestamp. I used the following 1 liner to do this:

$timestamp = strtotime(str_replace("/","-",$_REQUEST["date"]));