Entering a formatted date into the database?

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Hey all,

I have a database and table which has a new field such as ‘date’ in it and i have set this to varchar(255).

I have in my php the following:

$date = date('l \	\h\e jS \of\ F Y');

then I go ahead and insert this into the database but my records now don’t get inserted and the date doesn’t show.

Is there another way I am meant to enter this into the database?

Look forward to your replies

Thanks in advance,
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