No under windows doesn't work. you have to enter a value in that field with value NOW() -elias http://www.kameelah.org/eassoft "Michael Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > Create a field in your table called something like 'date' and make its > data type TIMESTAMP. MySQL will automatically add a timestamp with each > new entry ... assuming you're using UNIX, I don't know about windows. > > Mick > > > I know this has been brought up repeatedly but I couldn't find the archives website. > > I'm doing a news publishing script (something like newsphp \ php-nuke) but uses mySQL to store all the data instead of flat files. > > I would like to make it such that everytime I submit an news entry, the time\date will automatically be inserted in that row. > > Could someone give me some suggestions? > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]