On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 07:22 PM, DL Neil wrote:
> The choice comes down to how you are generating the time data prior to > its storage in the db, and how you plan to use it afterwards. If you are > going to be doing lots of temporal processing in PHP, then UNIX > timestamp is the way to go. If it is purely a 'label' then stick with > that format - even storing a string in MySQL that it doesn't realise is > a date! Both PHP and MySQL have a wide range of time/date functions to > support such activities. Thanks David, I think I'm going to avoid potential problems with TIMESTAMP columns' unique features by just storing a PHP mktime() value into a VARCHAR(15) column (advice from someone on this list, I can't remember who). While it will mostly be a label, and I could take a shortcut, the advantage is that I can always reformat the Unix timestamp (mktime()) for that later, and I plan to do searches based on date at times. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
