I am currently developing flutter using mysql and php. The connection to my database and flutter works fine. It works fine when I insert string. But when I use DateTime.now() it throws Error: FormatException: SyntaxError: Unexpected token b in JSON at location 0.
My flutter code is
DateFormat dateFormat = DateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String date = dateFormat.format(DateTime.now());
var url = 'http://192.168.1.8/konkolata-dashboard/driver.php';
var response = await http.post(Uri.parse(url), body: {
'name' : fullName.text,
'assigned' : 'false',
'assignedTo': 'no',
'created': date,
'available': 'true'
});
My PHP side receiving the date of the post looks like
$created = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($_POST['created']));
So how can I insert date from flutter and receive it from php?
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If it helps anyone, please let me post my solution. First, we need to create a column in the database as DateTime instead of Date. Then in php we initialize it as
$created = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($_POST['created']));, and then in flutter we can specify it as"Create": DateTime.now().toString(),. This works for me.