PDO::PARAM for dates?
When writing a date in an SQL query, you are writing it as a string; you have to do the same with prepared statements, and use PDO::PARAM_STR, like you did in the portion of code you proposed.
And for the "timestamp", if by "timestamp" you mean:
- The MySQL timestamp data-type: it's the same, you'll pass it as a
string - The PHP Unix timestamp, which is an integer: you'll pass it an
int.
Simply creating the date using php date function should fix this issue for you.
$handle->execute(array(":date"=>date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($date)), PDO::PARAM_STR));Edit: Please note though, that
strtotime(http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php) can't handle every kind of date formats.