I do not know if it suites your purposes, but I find INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL does great at holding a UNIX_TIMESTAMP() value, and is easy to manipulate...
-Jason Garber IonZoft.com At 02:02 PM 10/18/2001 +0100, p.whiter wrote: >Hi >Thanks for your reply, I have tried this using NOW() and NOW()+0, there is >no difference, I think I have narrowed the problem down to the time part of >the timestamp being disregarded, as I have written the query below it is >making the calculation using days rather than seconds...... > >This should really be a rather simple query to achieve, but it is turning >into a big headache..... > >Thanks again >Paul > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Russ Michell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "p.whiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:24 PM >Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] newbie - problems with Select and timestamp(14) >calculation > > >: >(NOW()+0) >: Not sure what the +0 achieves?? Try with just NOW(). >: >: Cheers. >: Russ >: >: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:41:14 +0100 "p.whiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >: >: > Hi >: > I am trying to set-up a type of anti-flood block on one of my forms, the >way >: > I am doing this is that when the first submission is made I log various >: > details into a user_log table including IP no and a Timestamp (14) >column >: > called log_time. Now if the button is clicked again the php script will >run >: > the following query: >: > >: > SELECT user_ip FROM clinic_log WHERE user_ip = '$pw_userIP' AND >: > (((NOW()+0) - clinic_log.log_time ) < 300) >: > >: > What I am (trying) doing here is to check the users IP ($pw_userIP) >against >: > the user_ip column in the database and if it matches then check to see >: > whether it has been there for less than 300 seconds. >: > >: > I have just spent the last couple of hours trying to get this >: > working......it doesn't want to know. It keeps finding the matching IP >and >: > disregarding the time calculation...... >: > >: > Thanks for any help. >: > Paul > > > >-- >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
