Re: Timestamps

On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Philip Thompson wrote:

On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Jason Pruim wrote:

Hi Yves, Thanks for the tip, that worked, I think I'll use that from now on.. Just out of curiosity though, any idea why it wasn't working as I was writing it :)

Did you try putting the query that PHP is generating in phpMyAdmin or MySQL Query Browser? See if it throws an error when attempting to update. It *appears* that the query should work.

No I haven't, I don't have phpMyAdmin installed since I do it all from the command line, and I don't pay for hosting yet... But I am going to need to change that. I don't believe I have heard about MySQL Query Browser though... Is it a webapp? Or do I need to install it on my local computer?

~Philip PS... Was it you, Jason, or someone else who asked about the security of the community knowing their database structure and I encouraged the use of backticks around all field and table names?

Yeah it was me... Old habits die hard :) I'm working on converting everything :)

On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:47 AM, YVES SUCAET wrote:

Hi Jason, It's not because you create a date/time value that you automatically have an integer-value. You need to specify first that you want the date/time value converted to an integer value first. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_unix-timestamp for an example of how to do this. Actually, by using this function, you probably don't even need to create the $modifiedTimestamp variable anymore. You can just write your SQL query as follows: $sql = "Update mytable set timestamp=UNIX_TIMESTAMP() where Record='1'"; HTH, Yves ------ Original Message ------ Received: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:39:11 AM CDT From: Jason Pruim <japruim@raoset.com> To: Stut <stuttle@gmail.com>Cc: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Timestamps On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Stut wrote:

On 30 Apr 2008, at 16:29, Jason Pruim wrote:

Okay... So I know this should be simple... Trying to store a timestamp in a MySQL database... The timestamp I am making like so: $modifiedTimestamp = time(); and then just $sql = "Update mytable set timestamp='$modifiedTimestamp' where Record='1'"; Simple right? Not quite...in my database it's storing a "0" in the timestamp field which is a int(10) field. I have googled, and searched manuals, but have not been able to figure out what is going on.... Any Ideas?

timestamp is a reserved word. Try putting it in backticks.

Okay, so I did a really crappy job at my sudo code... The field name is actually Last_Updated. so my update code looks like this: Last_Updated='$modifiedTimestamp' *Slaps his wrist... Bad copy/paste! BAD!!!

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