title: Bootstrap Datepicker convert format from dd.mm.yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd before inserting to MySQL
body: <p>Is there a fairly simple way to convert the format of Bootstrap Datepicker before inserting the data to database?</p>
  
  <p>My page had the HTML5 date input until I realized it was only working in Chrome.</p>
  
  <p>The thing is I need to display the data on the webpage in a norwegian/european format: dd.mm.yyyy and then insert the value as a "default" date (yyyy-mm-dd) to MySQL. Column in database is Date type.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not good at javascript, so I'm hoping there's a simple addon to the script that fixes this.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!-- Datepicker JS --&gt;
  &lt;script src="datepicker/js/bootstrap-datepicker.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script src="datepicker/locales/bootstrap-datepicker.no.min.js" charset="UTF-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
    $(function () {
    $('#date').datepicker({
    locale: 'no'
    });
  });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  
  &lt;div class="col-md-2 form-group"&gt;
          &lt;label for="date"&gt;Date&lt;/label&gt;
          &lt;input type="text" class="form-control input-sm" name="date" id="date" data-provide="datepicker"&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>