PHP :: Convert Date From A Database Query

Convert User Entered Date And Time To Unix Timestamp Before Inserting To Database
How do you convert a user inputted date to a unix timestamp before
insterting it into your database? I have a form, with a textfield for
a date that the user inputs in the format mm-dd-yyyy and three dropdow
boxes for hours, minutes, and AM/PM. All of these need to be considered
together and converted to one Unix Timestamp and then inserted to the
MYSQL date field. The type of field is INT (11) so that I can instead
of the standard 0000-00-00 format of MYSQL so that I can do better
calculations and queries.

Convert Date Into Day
I posted a question about session variables and appended variable value to a url and I figured it. Thanks for those who helped.

Now, I have question about converting date into actual name of day. For example, converting 2005-05-12 to thursday. Is there a way to do that?

Convert Date In Php
is there a way to change the format of a date that is submitted through an html form?
example: I have a form with a date field that accepts a standard U.S. date format of (%m/%d/%Y) but then when this: ($_POST['fdate'], "date") occurs I'd like it to take a date value of (%Y-%m-%d) so that the server will handle it.

Convert Time From Query
I have a time stamp in a phpbb table called topic_time

$query1 = "Select * FROM phpbb_topics WHERE forum_id = 1 ORDER BY topic_time ASC LIMIT 3 ";

How would I convert that topic_time timestamp to a real date from the query?

ex:

$query1 = "Select * FROM phpbb_topics WHERE forum_id = 1 ORDER BY ".date("Y M D", "topic_time"). "ASC LIMIT 3 ";

doesnt seem to work though.

SQL Query (convert Dates)
I have a database of 5,000 records and in each record is a field called 'dob' which has dates in it, the dates are stored as DD/MM/YYYY and I need to run a query on the database to convert all date records stored in 'dob' field to YYYY-MM-DD.

Convert String To Date
I'am trying to manipulate csv file using PHP, but my problem is that, one field there is date DD/DD/YYYY. My question is, how can I convert that text to date? So that I can insert it to the mysql database correctly.

Convert A Date Format
I am displaying records from a table including a stored date. When
display $row[Date], i get the obvious 2006-05-21. However this is not
what the guy wants. He wants 21-May-2006.

I have tried several conversion functions but without success. I could
do a long winded function, but i hoped there would be a simple
solution.

Convert Date To Timestamp
Which one of the php functions will convert a date into a timestamp. I'm
looking at the date/time functions on php.net, but they all seem to work
the other way.

Convert Unicode Value To ASCII Value For Use In Query
i have a function that returns a value in Unicode format. When I try and make a MySQL select statement with the Unicoce value it does not work.

So I need to change this Unicode value into a ASCII value that I can use in my database query.

Convert Unix Timestamp To Date('Y-m-d H:i:s')?
How do you convert a unix timestamp to date('Y-m-d H:i:s')?

How Do U Convert Date Time Stamp For RSS Feed
Need help in converting my sql date time stamp in RSS compatiable. Currently my date time is in this format 2005-12-21 15:34:14

How To Convert A Date To A GMT Date ?
how to convert a date to a GMT date ?

How To Convert An XML Database?
I have been working on a site which uses a large XML database (70meg) and have decided against using SimpleXML to work with this and am going to convert the XML database to SQL so it is easier to work with.

The database however with be changed once a month as it contains properties. So the database will be completely changed. How would i go about converting the database to SQL?

Database Convert
I've had a website/forum for a couple years now, but we were never able to figure out how to integrate our two softwares(My Gaming Ladder and SMF). So I figured I would make a script that goes through and selects users from My Gaming Ladder since there are more users registered there and insert them into the SMF database. My problem is that when I run the script, nothing happens, it just keeps loading and I don't know why. This is my code:

Convert HTTP Header Last Modification Date To Integer
snoopy class can retrieve the specific page's lat modification date in
String but is there any way to get into the integer or long?

<?php
include( "Snoopy.class.php" );
$request = new Snoopy;
$request->fetch( "http://www.mysite.com" );

if( ! $request -error ){
while( list( $key, $val ) = each( $request -headers ) ) {
echo $key.": ".$val."<br>
";
}
}
?>

Date_FORMAT Need To Convert Back To MySQL Date Format
Below is a couple of snippets of code that I have for modifying the date format from MySQL and it works great. The problem I am running into is later in the code I need to call the $AuctionDate variable to query the data field in another table. This won't work because the format has been modified using date_FORMAT. How do I convert it back to the MySQL date format so I can properly query the database. Code:

Date Is Not Being Pulled From MYSQL Database, Instead Current Date Is Displayed!
I am having trouble pulling a date from a database using PHP at the <a
href="http://www.mytuneslive.com/ameshkin69/"> following page.</a>

Here is the code. As you can see, it is just making the date the
current time. The values in the database are UNIX timestamp, and the
DATE() function is used to convert from UNIX to readable date. Can

<td width="55%" align="left" valign="top"><?php
$row_comment['timestamp'] = date("n d Y g:i A");.....

Convert Text From Database For HTML
I'm pulling text from a database (MySQL) and I'm using the nl2br () function to convert the line breaks

DESCRIPTION="<?php echo nl2br($row_rsttheJobResults['description']); ?>"

This creates the following example

"A new line will be created soon < 'br' >
and here it is."

However the website that receives this cannot accept the characters < and >
So I want to convert this "< br >" into this "<p>"

Could anybody help me add to the nl2br () function to convert the < br > tags?

* the spaces between the < and br are there because they won't show in the message otherwise

Further Date Query....
I have my compiled date function working, thanks to a devshed user , It enters the start date. which can be set manually by the administrator as they may not want to start their contract for three weeks after subscribing etc. This works fine. The end date should be set by the contract length that is chosen in create user. Month / Quarter / Annual and a few others....can I make

$end_date = ($compiled_start_date, +365); and if so, would it enter it into the db as the same format that start date goes in which is 2003-MM-DD?

Also - does anyone have any suggestions for automaticall setting my start date form fields to today's date? I have three fields, days, months, year (year is non-changeable so is not a problem).

Date Query
This may be more of a MySQL question but possibly a php solution. I'm trying do do a query to return how many days a member has been subscribed. The column date is the date they joined. Code:

Mysql Date Query
I need to check if one script was run later than one hour ago - I had a problem with cron and want to put in a safety code.

On successful running of the script I remember the date in db
CREATE TABLE log(id INT NOT NULL auto_increment, ttime DATETIME, other_info TEXT, PRIMARY KEY(id));

The sql query that I use now is:
SELECT HOUR(CURDATE() - ttime) as h FROM log ORDER BY h LIMIT 1;

However I have a problem - it returns sometimes value NULL (which is always first).

If I use the following syntax:
SELECT HOUR(CURDATE() - ttime) as h FROM log WHERE h IS NOT NULL ORDER BY h LIMIT 1;

I get the error: Unknown column `h` in `where clause`. What can I do?

Date/MySQL Query
I am making an event calendar that allows users to add events. An event can possibly span multiple days so I made two fields for start date and end date. This all works fine.

I want to be able to grab the data out of the database through a query and display it on the webpage in order of date. So I'm ordering by the start date. However if the event is 3 days long I want to show the event on the page 3 times, with all other events in between also show. I have not been able to figure out the logic on how to get the event to show up 3 times with other events in between them?

Sample Data:
Event 1 Dec 31 2002
Event 2 Dec 31 2002
Event 1 Jan 01 2002

Sort By Date Query
I have a gallery website that has a search facility and im trying to work out how to amend the php so the results are shown by newest photo first.This is the code. I dont even know where to start looking. I looked at the usort section but I didnt see anything that made sense to me to amend. Code:

Query Date Range
I have a table which holds a bunch of dates

id datefrom dateto
1 2007-02-22 2007-03-05
2 2007-05-13 2007-06-23
3 2007-05-25 2007-07-23

the `datefrom` and `dateto` are dates in the format YYYY-MM-DD, the `datefrom` means the date the event starts and the `dateto` means the date the event ends.

What I want to run a query on this table and return any rows which have todays date between the 'datefrom' and the 'dateto'.

Does that make much sense?

Php Query To Select Min Date
im trying to get a minimum date from my database, the current way im doing it is:

SELECT * FROM events where Date > NOW() OR Date = '9999-12-12' ORDER BY Date ASC LIMIT 1

this works in terms of code, but it doesnt do what I want it to do. Its the ORDER BY Date, that is the problem: What I want to select is

The next date OR a date = 9999-12-12

I tried searching for a query like "select MIN date" but couldnt find anything on it, plus the date has to be in the future, hence the need for DATE > NOW()

quite confusing I know!! but any advice?

Convert Date() Month Numeric Into Month Full Name.
date("m"); returns the following result for this month... "02"

That is fine and dandy, but the problem is, I need to change 02 into February, and not by changing it to date("F"); I need to use the date function to convert the supplied number of 02 into February, is there a way of going about this logically without a bunch of if/else statements??

MySql Query, Php Date Format.
This is actually 2 questions, but they go to gethere so I'm asking them as one. First, how do I write a MySql query that returns all the rows that have a date in the date collum that is newer than todays date? Then I need to take those rows, format the date in them and then print them in a table.

Creating A Date Range Query?
If I have a date field, and want to select all records that are older then 30 days from today, is there a way to query MySQL for this? Code: $todaydate=date("Y-m-d");

$query = "SELECT * FROM members WHERE joined_date = '$todaydate-30' "; I know this will not work, but it's functionaly what I am trying to do.

Date Range Query Issue
I have a database which contains events, the structure has two date fields, one is called "datefrom" and the other one is called "dateto", these two fields contain dates in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

"datefrom" represents the start date and then "dateto" represents the end date.

I have a query which returns all rows which have todays date within the start and end date, but it doesnt seem to be doing this correctly all the time, if at all. Can anyone spot any issues I might have with it?

My query is

$eventssql = "SELECT * FROM events WHERE type = 2 AND datefrom BETWEEN CURDATE() AND CURDATE() + INTERVAL 6 DAY OR dateto BETWEEN CURDATE() AND CURDATE() + INTERVAL 6 DAY LIMIT 10";
$eventsquery = @mysql_query($eventssql,$connection) or die(mysql_error());
Make any sense?

Query Date Range Select
how do i make a query that select between today and a week from today.

Limiting A Query By Number And Date
I run a hockey league and want to post my schedule for the upcoming season. The problem is that I have 100 games in the season and I want to limit the query to 30 games on the schedule that is posted on my website.

That part was no problem for me but I also would like to have those 30 games be determined by date. So I would like the script to acquire the current date and post the next 30 games that are upcoming. I have a date field in the daatbase that is in the form YYYY-MM-DD.

Date Range In MYSQL Query
I'm trying to extract data in a certain range of date (say 1 month's worth), but my results aren't what I'm expecting. Can you guys have a look at my code and suggest what may not be coded properly?

function display_archive($month) {
$tempdate = $month. " 1, 2007";
$startdate = date("F d, Y", strtotime($tempdate));

$tempdate2 = $month. " 30, 2007";
$enddate = date("F d, Y", strtotime($tempdate2));

db_connect();
$result = mysql_query("select * from blog where entered BETWEEN '$date' and '$enddate'");
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result);
}

How To Make MYSQL Query To Sort The Articles By Date ??
I am developing a site using PHP and MYSQL where i can post articles. Each Article has features like author, date, data etc... I want to find out top 5 recent articles.

I store the date of an article in database as $timeStamp = Date("F j, Y");

when i make a query to retrieve the latest article by date as:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM postData ORDER BY postDate DESC LIMIT 0, 5");

it doesn't give any output...

Get Most Recent Row On An Inner Join Mysql Query Based On Date
Here is my current query:

SELECT tbl1.id, tbl1.username, tbl1.status, tbl1.joined, tbl2.timeDate, tbl1.directory FROM tbl1, tbl2 WHERE tbl1.id = tbl2.users_id GROUP BY tbl1.id

This returns their oldest ie first login. I use this for analytics on the backend to determine user activity. So I would like a query that instead that returns the most recent tbl2.timeDate.

Getting Database Name For A Given Query
In PHP you can retrieve the table.column name of a MySQL
query doing
something like this:

$result = mysql_query($query, $dbConnection);
$resultArray = mysql_fetch_row($result);
$i = 0;
foreach ($resultArray as $data)
{
$tableName = mysql_field_table($result, $i);
$fieldName = mysql_field_name($result, $i);
$returnVal["$tableName.$fieldName"] = $data;
$i += 1;
}

The problem is that I am selecting across databases and it
is
conceivable that two tables will have the same name. How do
I get the
Database Name for a given field?

I would want something like this:

foreach ($resultArray as $data)
{
$dbName = mysql_field_db($result, $i);
$tableName = mysql_field_table($result, $i);
$fieldName = mysql_field_name($result, $i);
$returnVal["$dbName.$tableName.$fieldName"] = $data;
$i += 1;
}

DATE Doesn't Get Into Database
I have a HTML-form with a 10width field in which you can enter a date. But whatever I enter. In the database I always find 0000-00-00. The variable comes through. I checked that. Does anybody know what I do wrong ?

Date Database?
The admin assistants can enter the number of hours that each employee has worked on a particular date in a particular month (hours are variable depending upon customer demand) and at the end of the month need to run off a pay slip for each employee containing the following data:

I know how to add, delete and modify the data, the only thing im not sure of is the databse structure for the dates.

Logical Database Query
I currently have 2 tables in my database. One called "members" and another called "phpbb_users" (which is the user's table in my forum)

Basically I want to get all the results from my members tables and then automatically insert the values into the phpbb_users table.

I have the following code below which I am trying but doesn't work. Can anyone offer a little support on this? Code:

Inserting Date Into Database
I have a pretty simple news code that inserts the data, and then is retreaved, with a pretty simple scheme. I have a date column set at timestamp(14), and I'm trying to insert NOW() as the date. I browse with phpmyadmin and all it has is 14 zero's. PHP Code:

Displaying Date From A Database
All I need to do is change the date so it reads, for example, May 1999 when it's displayed on the page. Code:

Inserting Date In Database
I have form which allows a user to select a date as part of the form.
On submitting i am getting no update to the database and no error message.
To try and test it i created a shorter version which sets up the variables except the date.This gives the same result.ie no update. Code:

Daily Automated Query Of Database
I would like to run a script on a daily basis that queries a DATE field
in one of my tables. I want to do this to establish the age of my table
entry by comparing with the current date.

Could someone please give me a few pointers on how to get started in
solving this. I just read somewhere about cron jobs but I've never used
them?

I'm running Apache (2.0.54) on Win XP Prof with MySQL (4.1.10) and PHP
(4.3.10). All on a local machine so I can set all appropiate
permissions.

Database Query From Within A Class Function
My application is object orientated and each object requires a cooresponding "PageID" in the tables "Page" and "PageContent" as well as a few other necessary elements to display properly as a web page.

Some page elements are contained in their own tables, but are associated with the"Page" and "PageContent" tables by the "PageID" that cooresponds to the page the element should be displayed on.

I have written a script that allows me to create a new page by inserting data into fields on the "Page" and "PageContent" tables, but it only works as long as the "PageID" in each table is auto_incrementing in sinc.

I wanted include a method for members to sign-up for the site and I fould a script named "Authlib v1.94" that seems to work pretty well on its own. However, I hacked the code to redirect the data to an existing member table and cut out some of the validation. My intital tests on the hack have been satisfactory.

If any of you are familiar with the "Authlib v1.94" code you may be aware there's a file named backend.php included in the script. It is a class file that includes some pretty nice validation functions for dealing with registering new members, logins, etc.

The register function of the authlib class validates user input from the regestration form. If all the checks pass, it goes on to create a new entry in the "Member" table. (Keep in mind that I redirected the data to this table and hacked the code a bit.) The code looks something like this: PHP Code:

Sorting Database Query Results
I want to know if it is possible to sort query results so that the records with a value in a certain field is displayed first and the records with the field empty thereafter.

2 Drop Down List Where Need Query Database
there is drop down list box linked to the database where it displays the state of a country and once the user clicks on the particular state, there purpose to be radio button displaying the locations available of that state, the location displayed in radio buttons are from the database. currently the source code i'm using is (which uses a submit button to query the database but i does not want the submit button it purpose to work using Code:

Database Query Or File Read
Specifically, is it faster to store template source in a database (MySQL) and run a query or in a file and use the file functions to get the contents? Advantages/Disadvantages of both other than the speed difference?

No Database Query Is Allowed Yet Value Is Still Returned
I am developing. One of types of users we allow is "justTestingTheSite", a
type of user I developed to give demo's to prospective clients. The
purpose of this level of security is to let someone log in and see
everything as if they were root, and yet not be able to update or
delete anything, as they have no real priveledges at all.

I just logged in as root and created such an account, then I log out
and logged back in using the new account. I tried to edit the weblog
on the front page of the site. Everything worked as it should of: I
was able to get to the screen, edit it, and hit submit, and then,
because of my low security rating, the software did not change the
values. Perfect.

But the results message said "You've just updated 26 items." I was
expecting it to say "You've just updated 0 items." 26 just happens to
be the number of entries on the weblog which is the front page of the
site. For the life of me, I can not figure out how the software got
the number 26. More so, the message seems to be incorrect, none of the
26 items seems to have been updated.

function standardUpdate($functionForEditing) {
global $users;
$users->check();
.....

Using Session Data To Query A Database
Basically the title is the general idea of what i'm trying to do, a user logs in, great, his login id is stored (it is also his number on a seperate database) in a session variable. Now that session variable needs to be queried to another database (with all of that users information) to get all of the information on that user back to the original server (not the first database, the first database just has user number, id, and a password field).

So I have a question, and if you have answers great! or if you know of the thread that they are on that would also help because i've been searching and haven't found anything yet.

1. How can I query a session variable in a sql statement, do I just put select * from users where '.$_SESSION['mysessionname'].' = usernumber ?

Convert Date From A Database Query

I have a simple database for events. I have a column named "date" that I would like to display as "March 8, 2007" on the webpage. What do I need to add to change the date format? Here is my php code: