jQuery UI DatePicker - Change Date Format

Question

I am using the UI DatePicker from jQuery UI as the stand alone picker. I have this code:

And the

Answer 1

$("#datepicker").datepicker("getDate") returns a date object, not a string.

var dateObject = $("#datepicker").datepicker("getDate"); // get the date object
var dateString = dateObject.getFullYear() + '-' + (dateObject.getMonth() + 1) + '-' + dateObject.getDate();// Y-n-j in php date() format