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Posted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on 06/27/05 07:08
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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