What is the best way to put the current date into MySQL?
if it's the date and time you're after, the NOW() function in MySQL works well.
if you just want the date though, use the date() function in PHP... date(Y-m-d) should give you what you want in yyyy-mm-dd format.
http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/a/Date_and_time_functions.html
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