Fbloggs Geekdom » MySQL http://www.fbloggs.com Duncan's musings on tech related topics Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:29:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How To Assign The Current Date and Time to a MySQL Datetime Field using PHP http://www.fbloggs.com/2010/02/18/how-to-assign-the-current-date-and-time-to-a-mysql-field-using-php/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2010/02/18/how-to-assign-the-current-date-and-time-to-a-mysql-field-using-php/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:50:49 +0000 fbloggs http://www.fbloggs.com/?p=295 This is a no-brainer, but I always forget how to do it. MySQL datetime fields are stored in this format: 2010-02-18 10:33:18. Here’s a trivial example showing you how to populate a datetime field with the current date in the…

]]> http://www.fbloggs.com/2010/02/18/how-to-assign-the-current-date-and-time-to-a-mysql-field-using-php/feed/ 1 How To Format a MySQL Date For Output in PHP http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/09/15/how-to-format-a-mysql-date-for-output-in-php/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/09/15/how-to-format-a-mysql-date-for-output-in-php/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:35:51 +0000 fbloggs http://www.fbloggs.com/?p=165 The following PHP code parses the date portion out of a MySQL date column and lets you format it according to the formatting rules of the PHP date function.

To use it, you can do something like this:…

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