How to insert the record with MySQL NOW() function in MySQLi with bind_param?

Question

I need to execute this mysql query in MySQLi PDO with bind parametr in PHP:

mysql_query("INSERT INTO `posts` (post_name,publish_date) VALUES ($post_name,NOW()) ")

I use the script like this, but it doesn't insert publish_date correctly.

$publish_date = 'NOW()';
$insert = $mysqli->prepare("INSERT INTO posts (post_name,publish_date) VALUES (?,?)");
$insert->bind_param("ss", $post_name $publish_date);
$insert->execute();

It inserts the record into the publish_date column like this: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

How can I do this ? Thanks in advance.

P.S: The type of date column is datatime.

Answer 1

Probably you should try using the date function not NOW()

$publish_date =date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$insert = $mysqli->prepare("INSERT INTO posts (post_name,publish_date) VALUES (?,?)");
$insert->bind_param("ss", $post_name $publish_date);
$insert->execute();