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May 27th, 2002, 11:04 PM

roy

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TIMESTAMP field

Hi,

I have a TIMESTAMP field in a table, how to automatically fill the field when adding a new record without using PHP time function? Is it possible?

May 27th, 2002, 11:33 PM

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when you insert a new row when you come to the timestamp field for the value insert a 0 without the ' that will force mysql to input the default value! which if timestamp is selected as the default value, should place a timestamp in.

hope that helps

May 28th, 2002, 01:36 AM

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You can also not specify a value for the field and mysql will insert the timestamp. For example, if you had a table like this

id int auto_increment
theTime timestamp
name varchar(30)

and you did

insert into table(name) values("Tim")

then id would increment and the timestamp would be put into the theTime field.

May 28th, 2002, 02:02 AM

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Thanks.
I tried by putting an empty string for that field and the field was set to 0000-00-00. Now only I know I should set it to 0 instead.

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