If you want to provide date and time values in a SQL statement, you should write them in the format of "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss", and quoted with single quotes ('). The tutorial exercise below shows you two INSERT statements. The first one uses a hard-code date value. The second one uses the date() function to return a date value.

<?php

$con = odbc_connect('ggl_SQL_SERVER','sa','GlobalGuideLine');

$notes = "Added long time ago!";

$time = "1999-01-01 01:02:03";

$sql = "INSERT INTO ggl_links (id, url, notes, time)"

. " VALUES ("

. " 301, 'netscape.com', '".$notes."', '".$time."')";

if (!odbc_exec($con, $sql)) {

print("SQL statement failed with error: ");

print(odbc_error($con).": ".odbc_errormsg($con)." ");

} else {

print("1 rows inserted. ");

}

$notes = "Added today!";

$time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

$sql = "INSERT INTO ggl_links (id, url, notes, time)"

. " VALUES ("

. " 302, 'myspace.com', '".$notes."', '".$time."')";