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Posted by "Mario netMines" on 06/29/05 14:44
Isn't DATEDIFF() a MySQL 4.x function? The server I'm using has 3.x and I
can't upgrade...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jasper Bryant-Greene" <jasper@bryant-greene.name>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: date problem
> Mario netMines wrote:
>> Hi Jasper and thanks for the quick reply.
>>
>> something tells me it's not a straightforward SQL query that I have to
>> use here but a logic using PHP and SQL.
>
> Please don't top-post.
>
> It can be done in SQL quite easily, as can many things people use PHP
> for. Go to the MySQL manual at http://dev.mysql.com/ and read up on
> Date/Time functions, specifically the DATEDIFF() function. IIRC, it
> returns the difference between two dates.
>
> You can perform many types of arithmetic on the return value of the
> function which should help to get the result you want. Try the MySQL
> mailing lists if you can't figure it out, or if you're completely stuck
> and are *convinced* it's a PHP problem (which I doubt, but I could be
> wrong) then by all means come back!
>
> Cheers
>
> Jasper
>
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