inserting server time into mysql
Hi everyone, I am trying to capture my server time automatically using php and insert it in a mysql table. Can the timestamp or time data type capture this information automatically without having me code anything else?
Re: inserting server time into mysql
Thanks for your help,
How can I capture this information from a php form into a mysql table.
This is what I did:
1. I created the table and the user to access the database the table is in
create table staffs (
id int not null auto_increment primary key,
firstname varchar(20) not null,
lastname varchar(20) not null,
signin datetime not null
);
2. I created a php form to insert data into this table. The
form works but the datetime field isn't populated
html
head
titleStaff Detail/title
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
/head
body
?php
if(isset($_POST['add']))
{
include 'config.php';
include 'opendb.php';
$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
$lastname = $_POST['lastname'];
$signin = $_POST['signin'];
$query = INSERT INTO staffs (firstname, lastname, signin) VALUES
('$firstname', '$lastname', '$signin');
mysql_query($query) or die('Error, insert query failed');
include 'closedb.php';
echo New staff detail added;
}
else
{
?
form method=post
table width=400 border=0 cellspacing=1 cellpadding=2
tr
td width=100First Name/td
tdinput name=firstname type=text/td
/tr
tr
td width=100Last Name/td
tdinput name=lastname type=text/td
/tr
tr
td width=100Sign-In Time/td
tdinput name=signin type=text/td
/tr
tr
tr
td width=100nbsp;/td
tdnbsp;/td
/tr
tr
td width=100nbsp;/td
tdinput name=add type=submit id=add value=Submit/td
/tr
/table
/form
?php
}
?
/body
/html
Am I doing something wrong?
You mentioned that I can insert the now() function into a regular datetime
field, how can I do that?
In the last episode (May 09), Alla-amin said:
I am trying to capture my server time automatically using php and
insert it in a mysql table.
Can the timestamp or time data type capture this information
automatically without having me code anything else?
You can use the 'timestamp' type to automatially insert the current
date/time when inserting or updating, or you can insert now() into a
regular 'datetime' field.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-type-overview.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/datetime.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/timestamp-4-1.html
RE: inserting server time into mysql
Thanks guys, It worked - thank you all so very much.
Re: MAC OS X backup after crash
Michael, You are very correct - I renamed those fields and boom - it started working like magic, thank you so much. I have another question - the database in question that got crashed had mysql root password but the guys I took over from forgot the password and didn't do any mysql dump. So, I had to manually copy the files i.e MYD, MYI and frm files to the database directories after creating them. However, the application that is using the database requires a certain user account in the mysql database and I can't get to it without the password, so I had to replace my new server mysl database files from the old server and it worked. However - I can't administer the mysql server without the root password. Anyone has any idea how I can retrieve the root password? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAC OS X backup after crash
So far this was what I did, Took all files i.e frm, MYI and MYD files from the new server. Created a database like on another box running the version of mysql the old server was running and pasted them in the data folder of the database I created and viola - they all showed up, so i think it was a compatability issue. Now - I don't want to un-install mysql on the new server so I did a dump from the test server and tried to import it but it encountered some errors on the way and imported only 9 tables out of 14. So, I dumped table by table and imported table by table and was able to import 12 tables and found out the tables that were giving problems. They are syntax errors, however - I have been battling with them over the past 8 hours, everything seems right to me and they run on the old version of mysql I copied the frm, MYD and MYI files to - but when I did a dump to the same server on another database or the new server - it gives the ff errors. 1. CREATE TABLE xrates ( date date default NULL, time time NOT NULL default '00:00:00', amount_from decimal(15,5) NOT NULL default '0.0', currency_from char(6) NOT NULL default '', amount_to decimal(15,5) NOT NULL default '0.0', currency_to char(6) NOT NULL default '', order tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', UNIQUE KEY date (date,currency_from,currency_to) ) TYPE=MyISAM; MySQL says ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'order tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', UNIQUE KEY date (date,currency' at line 8 2. CREATE TABLE user_log ( id mediumint(8) NOT NULL auto_increment, number varchar(7) NOT NULL default '', when timestamp(14) NOT NULL, what varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY KEY (id) ) TYPE=MyISAM; MySQL says ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'when timestamp(14) NOT NULL, what varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY ' at line 4 Plz assist. __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAC OS X backup after crash
Yes, 10.1.5 runs mysqk version 3, it was actually running 3.23.51 and 10.3 runs 4.0.14 I think. Ok - the database in question have been backedup with files such as table1.frm.gz table1.MYD.gz table1.MYI.gz and so on.gz When I create a new database on the new server and copy these files to the the new database, mysql doesn't recognize them. When I rename table1.frm to table1.frm and copy it to the new server database - mysql says that there is no data there. I haven't tried this on a 10.1.5 system yet - will do that asap. Alex Dehaini App Engineer NAS GLOBAL NETWORKS Mobile = +233-24-877231 Office = +233-217012800/2 Email = [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MAC OS X backup after crash
Hi everyone, I just subscribed to the list and some of the articles are very helpful. I'm facing some problem on my mysql database server. One of our Raid drives crashed and we had to backup the whole data to another drive (only files), we did no mysqldump. Now I want to restore a certain database from the crashed drive to the new server. I compressed it and uncompressed it in the data folder of the new server but the server only sees the database but no info. The 1st dbase was on MAC 10.1.5 and the current one is one 10.3. Any help please. Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
