Re: last updated ?

Paul O'Neil wrote:

Dumb question here but whats the general practice regarding putting a "website last updated:" entry on a web page? Does the web master manually enter in today's date in a database table entry and let PHP display. Is it statically added to the HTML page? Etc... I've just implimented that very thing in my site! Very simple. I have a MySQL table that features master site details, including the stylesheet, site title, that sort of thing. One column is a Datetime type.

In all the admin pages that add anything new to the site, the last update time is updated using: <?php $SQL = "UPDATE site SET LastUpdate='".date("Y-m-d G:i:s")."' WHERE SiteID=1";

    $result = mysql_query($SQL);

?> Then, in the site's standard footer I have the following: <p class="scribbles">Last Updated: <?php

      $timestamp = strtotime($sitedata["LastUpdate"]);
      echo date("G:i, D \T\h\e jS of M, Y ",$timestamp);

?> </p> This then shows the last update time on the browser, and I also set the page to expire at that time, so in that way (I understand) browsers know if the page has been updated since you last looked. -- Beth Gore http://bethanoia.dyndns.org