Update field with current dateTime?

PHP
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Hi all again!

I’m having this accessDate field and I want at special occassions to update it through a PHP script, with the current datetime (NOW in phpmyadmin).

the field is: datetime NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’

the query below doesnot seem to work:

UPDATE users SET accessDate = NOW WHERE loginID = xxxxxxx

Any ideas? Thank you all!

2

you forgot the parentheses for NOW()

you might want to use CURRENT_TIMESTAMP instead (it is standard SQL, whereas NOW() is mysql’s proprietary equivalenmt)

3

thanks for your immediate response!

I’m afraid that neither NOW() nor CURRENT_TIMESTAMP have any impact upon the field’s value.

Could it be the fact that these are (My)SQL functions and cannot be executed when php sends the query? I have to admit i doubt that… :goof:

4

then something else is wrong

have you tested the update query outside of php?

5

yeap! and works perfectly…

6

so you may have a php problem, yes?

want me to move the thread to the php forum?

7

please! thank for your time man.

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Post your php code please

9

Here you go:

$query="UPDATE users SET accessDate=NOW() WHERE loginID = userLoginID ";

Note that this query has also been run with quotes around NOW().

10

Now isn’t that stupid or what???
Just added below the query:

$result = mysql_query($query);

Man, I gotta take a break!

11

:lol:

Btw, are you sure there isn’t a $ missing in front of userLoginID?

$query="UPDATE users SET accessDate=NOW() WHERE loginID = $userLoginID ";
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that would turn it into a string, and that woun’t work

mysql has very “forgiving” syntax (some would call it what it is – “wrong”)

for example, if you compare a numeric column like an auto_increment to a specific string like ‘3’ then mysql will silently convert that string to the number 3

however, that’s as far as it goes, it will not convert ‘NOW()’ to a function call

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oh sorry, there is a $ in the original script, i justforgot it when i edited the original ID to make it userLoginID. All in all i just didn’t execute the query…