I've set up a simple MySQL news database with two rows - one for the date and one for the text.

How do i set the my "date" row to automaitcally show the date and of the entry?

Something like this would be nice:

"Friday 15 December"

It's probably very simple, but being a novice I need all the help I can get!!!!

Cheers

Try the following:

Set the default value of the field to <b>Now()</b>

Also take a look at TIMESTAMP:

TIMESTAMP(2) = YY
TIMESTAMP(4) = YYYY
TIMESTAMP(6) = YYMMDD
TIMESTAMP(8) = YYYYMMDD
TIMESTAMP(10) = YYMMDDHHMM
TIMESTAMP(12) = YYMMDDHHMMSS
TIMESTAMP(14) = YYYYMMDDHHMMSS

Regards

Owen.

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Many thanks for that! However, is there a way to format the date differently to the TIMESTAMP default? Like having DDMMYYYY or something?

I'm afraid you've got me there, not that hot with MySQL.

Regards

Owen.

Multiple Parameter UD4 / Access 2000 Database Search Tutorial:
www.tdsf.co.uk/tdsfdemo

Thanks anyway!

There are a number of ways to format the date and time, either independantly or together.

Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of functions that deal with exactly this, along with links to where you can find them on the php online manual:-

<b>date()</b>
www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

<b>strftime()</b>
www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

<b>mktime()</b>
www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php

<b>gmdate()</b>
www.php.net/manual/en/function.gmdate.php

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