Parse Date-time From String With PHP & MySQL

STR_TO_DATE:

You need to tell MySQL how to parse the string, and you do that byfiguring out the pattern and pass it to STR_TO_DATE() as the second parameter.

DATE_FORMAT:

This function is used to print the 'DATE' object in the way you want, you still need to tell the pattern to DATA_FORMAT(). The only one point is that you should pass a 'DATE' type variable to it, instead of a string, so you might need to convert the type before that, however, there are exceptions around.

MySQL Official Online Doc:   11.7. Date and Time Functions

The above doc describes all the functions that work on DATE & TIME.

The query I design:

SELECT 
MONTH( STR_TO_DATE( m_date,  '%Y-%m-%d' ) ) AS mon, 
DATE_FORMAT( STR_TO_DATE( m_date,  '%Y-%m-%d' ) ,  '%d/%m/%Y' ) AS DATE, 
DAYOFWEEK( STR_TO_DATE( m_date,  '%Y-%m-%d' ) ) AS dayweek, 
team2_id, team1_id, score1, score2, m_time, m_location, m_remark
FROM jos_bl_match
WHERE MONTH( STR_TO_DATE( m_date,  '%Y-%m-%d' ) ) =9
ORDER BY m_date

This is the normal way of thinking, but actually, MySQL use '0000-00-00' as format of date, so the string follows this format can be used as DATE type implicitly. That means, the STR_TO_DATE can be eliminated from our above query statement, and become:

SELECT 
MONTH( m_date ) AS mon,
DATE_FORMAT( m_date , '%d/%m/%Y') AS date,  
DAYOFWEEK( m_date) AS dayweek,
team2_id, team1_id, score1, score2, m_time, m_location, m_remark 
FROM jos_bl_match WHERE MONTH( m_date ) = 9 ORDER BY m_date

Here is the performance comparison of the two methods, may be due to the data volume is too small, the time consumed is the same:

REFS:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3296725/parse-date-in-mysql

http://www.roseindia.net/sql/sqldate/mysql-date-parse.shtml

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1279061/php-parse-date-string

http://php.net/manual/en/book.datetime.php