On Oct 20, 2013, at 4:01 AM, Ashley Sheridan <a...@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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