RE: [PHP-GENERAL] how do I protect/encrypt sensitive data in a database?

> Is there any reason why you don't want to use strings? It would > seem to me that DECODE()/intval() > would work just as well for your purposes. I guess the date functions are my biggest gripe right now. there are lots of nice add/sub date functions in mySQL that I don't know how to duplicate. PHP doesn't have any date functions really that are built in. know of any 'date functions' out there for PHP? I need to add dates and subtract dates basically and get the # of days in between, etc... obviously the tricky part is knowing how many days are in each month and stuff like that, then being able to increment from a given date up taking that into account.