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phphtmldatedatetimetime

Merge Date & Time

$combinedDT = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('$date $time'));

Date Format 2013-10-14

time format 23:40:19

i'm getting zeros when trying to store into a datetime datatype

Solution

  • You're currently doing strtotime('$date $time'). Variables wrapped in single-quotes aren't interpolated. If you use single-quotes, PHP will treat it as a literal string, and strototime() will try to convert the string $date $time into a timestamp.

    It'll fail and that would explain why you're getting incorrect results.

    You need to use double quotes instead:

    $combinedDT = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime("$date $time"));
                                            ^           ^