Yes, PHP is nice. But the more we force MySQL to perform, the less is required of PHP and the script writer.
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Cayford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] date Check out the date functions in php, they're very nice. mktime(), date(), strftime(), and setlocale() -Steve On Friday, October 26, 2001, at 08:47 AM, Rick Emery wrote: > Assume the following table: > create mytable ( > mydate date ); > > Assume the following inserts: > INSERT INTO mytable VALUES( "2003-02-20"); > INSERT INTO mytable VALUES( "2004-12-25"); > INSERT INTO mytable VALUES( "1999-01-01"); > > The following will order this table, assuming precedence of > year->month->day, and print in Euro format: > SELECT DATE_FORMAT(mydate,"%d/%m/%Y") FROM mytable ORDER BY mydate; > > The following will order this table, assuming precedence of > day->month->year, and print in Euro format: > SELECT DATE_FORMAT(mydate,"%d/%m/%Y") AS edate FROM mytable ORDER BY > edate; > > With basic PHP, you can format the Euro date input into the script into > the > YYYY-MM-DD requied for insertion into the database. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 6:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP-DB] date > > > how would i enter european format date into mysql (dd/mm/yyyy) ... and > how > would i make the query sort by date if i am using this format ?? > > ax > > > > -- > 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] > -- 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]
