Sanitizing PHP/SQL $_POST, $_GET, etc…?

Question

Ok, this subject is a hotbed I understand that. I also understand that this situation is dependent on what you are using as code. I have three situations that need to be r

Answer 1

Regarding the sanitization of dates, PHP has some built-in functions that can be helpful. The strtotime() function will convert just about any imaginable date/time format into a Unix timestamp, which can then be passed to the date() function to convert it to whatever formatting you like.

For example:

$date_sql = date( "Y-m-d", strtotime( $_POST["date"] ) );