[sqlite] storing and comparing dates in sqlite

2012-01-23 Thread dotolee
i'm new to sqlite... and relatively new to php. just wondering what the best way is to store and compare dates. right now i have something like this in my php code: $curr_date_time = strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'); i'm inserting this into a field in the database that has been defined as

Re: [sqlite] storing and comparing dates in sqlite

2012-01-23 Thread dotolee
can you point me in the right direction? aka. what data type am i using to store the date in my sqlite database? is TEXT correct? how do I do a select on it? thanks. Stephan Beal-3 wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:51 PM, dotolee woo_ju...@yahoo.com wrote: i'm new to sqlite

[sqlite] mktime() always returns same time minute value.

2012-01-23 Thread dotolee
hi there. can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong? I'm using mktime() to save current date / time stamp into my database as an INT. then when i'm displaying the data, i use the date() function to format it. here's how i create my time stamp variable in php: $curr_time_stamp = mktime();

Re: [sqlite] storing and comparing dates in sqlite

2012-01-23 Thread dotolee
the month. echo date(M-d-Y H:m:s, mktime()); i've read http://www.sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html but i can't seem to get it to work. Simon Slavin-3 wrote: On 23 Jan 2012, at 5:53pm, Stephan Beal wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:51 PM, dotolee woo_ju...@yahoo.com wrote: i'm new

Re: [sqlite] storing and comparing dates in sqlite

2012-01-23 Thread dotolee
i think i got it. echo date(M-d-Y H:i:s, mktime()); date() is php. thanks. dotolee wrote: i'm storing as integers now in the database. getting the unix time in seconds using the mktime() method. now i just need to figure out how to display properly. for example, in the sample