Re: how to display new icon for news posted within 2 days?

From: Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:02:01 +0000
Subject: Re: how to display new icon for news posted within 2 days?
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paragasu wrote: > is it possible to do it like SELECT *, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(post_date)-172,800 as is_new FROM tbl > $post = mysqli_fetch_object($sql); if($post->is_new) echo '<img src=new.gif">'; From what I can tell, you'll just have a timestamp 2 days earlier than the actual post date in the is_new var. So unless the post date is 0000172800 or earlier it will eval to true. How about: SELECT *, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(post_date) as ts FROM tbl if($post->ts > (time()-172800)) { echo '<img src="new.gif">'; } -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com

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