help with convertind date format

[greedyisg00d]

I need to convert this date 09/23/2009 16:43 into mysql standard format so that when I insert it into the database it will not appear as 0000-00-00 00:00:00. Any idea on how can this be done. Sample code is much appreciated. Thanks

[dagon]

strtotime +mktime

the manual pages have the best sample code i know of.