Re: If date is greater than
| From: | Tedd Sperling | Date: | Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:50:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: If date is greater than | ||
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On Oct 20, 2013, at 4:01 AM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
> Yes, I was going to ask, why are you storing your dates as strings?
> MySQL has a perfectly good DATE type. It's also generally faster
> comparing dates within a MySQL query than PHP code.
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Agreed.
Plus, there are many date functions provided by MySQL that are easier (possibility faster) than what
you can do in PHP.
Check these out:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date
tedd
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