|  | Posted by bill on 10/14/07 10:59 
Rik Wasmus wrote:> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:36:13 +0200, bill <nobody@spamcop.net> wrote:
 >
 >> (Don't froth at the mouth Jerry, this IS a PHP question - sort of <g>)
 >>
 >> I have a SQL column with date format.  In my PHP script I need to do
 >> simple math on it, eg  how many days past the date in the SQL record
 >> are we now.
 >
 > Well, it could be solved quite easily in MySQL....
 >
 > SELECT
 >     something,
 >     datecolumn,
 >     DATEDIFF(datecolumn,CURDATE())
 > FROM table
 >
 >
 >> Do I need to convert it to a timestamp in order to do the math, or is
 >> there an easier way ?
 >
 > Otherwise it's just a string, because PHP has no 'date' type. So either
 > split it into components or indeed convert it to a timestamp (which
 > would be easiest).
 >
 WOW !
 Thanks Rik
 
 bill
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