I could just change the field type. But how do you calculate it? I don't
see much to inspire a start. I'm not a full-time coder either. More of a
tinkerer. I don't want someone to do it for me, but need to get my head
around how to do it.
http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
John
Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
I created my own counter. I have a varchar (10) field that resembles a
date: 2005-06-26. Now I would like to parse out $mydata->StampDate to
find how many hits per day I have had since "2003-08-23". Where do I start?
while ($mydata = mysql_fetch_object($news))
{
}
You can use strtotime() to convert your string date to a PHP date. and
then calculate it from that.
However, I'd strongly recommend using a real MySQL date field to store
the date. There's no reason not to, and then you can use MySQL native
functions to do a lot of the calculation.
Jasper
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