[GLLUG] PHP/MySQL Dev question (again)

[Sean]

Use the system time for your original time field, let the db keep track of 
the modification times. And really you should be using an auto-increment 
field for your unique id field. 

You would do somthing like: 
if (!isset($original_time)) {
	$original_time = date("YmdHI") ;
	}

Or something like that (untested) 


Sean 


On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Mike Szumlinski wrote:

> Okay, here is what I'm tryin' to do...probably simple...
> 
> I have a table that users update that has a timestamp (dateadded) 
> within it.  That used to suffice when the users could only ADD items, 
> but now that they can modify as well, every time the item is modified 
> the timestamp grabs the new time.  Since my list is ordered by date, 
> this throws things off...so I need to figure out a way to add a 
> modified date (which would be the timestamp) to the table as well as 
> the dateadded field (which is not null and is unchangeable).
> 
> I was using the dateadded timestamp as a unique ID (probably not the 
> greatest idea, but since I don't think 2 people will post at the exact 
> same time down to the second on the site, I'm not that worried).  But 
> now that the dateadded timestamp changes when the data in the table is 
> modified, it just screws everything up.  Any ideas on how to do this 
> would be much appreciated.
> 
> -Mike
> 
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