Affiliate PHP program project - Please help

Hi PPL, I'm doing an affiliate program for a small company in PHP, but am stuck a bit in the logic or thinking process.... I have a table with IdNo,clicks,month,year the affiliates will get a link like this http://mysite.com/affiliates/aff.php?IdNo=775 every time I get a click from 775 in the table I am updating the table with something like clicks=clicks+1 where month=6 and year=2002 and IdNo=775 My question is how do I get the current month/year from php or do I have to query the database before every update to get month() and month(day)? will I have to use something like (for month) $mon=date(m); (for year ) $yer=date(Y); plus the main reason I am writing is to ask you gurus if I have the right idea to make this work or is it done in some other way? Maybe you have done a similar program and and can give me some valuble info/insight or wise words? ;-) OT- do you have any idea on how to contral the cursor in a form with 10 textfields? is it possible without javascript? Thanks in advance for ANY help on this, Have a great day, -Ryan.