I have a moodle installation in which there is a column in mdl_user table called firstaccess whose type is bigint(10) and contains date in following format 1266839570.
I am writing a query for accessing users according to date filters. For e.g. i want to check which users firstaccess is greater than '2010-04-12'. How can i convert the date? These two date formats are different. I think firstaccess is unix timestamp. Should i change the '2010-04-12' into unix timestamp or there is a way to convert firstaccess i.e 1266839570 to yyyy-mm-dd format.
Please help me on this.
Thanks
You can create a unix timestamp in php with the mktime() function, then simply put it in your query.
MySQL has a date_format() function, that can format dates however you like, but I'm not sure if it works with bigints. You'd better go with the mktime.
date() and mktime() are functions to concert from unix timestamp and back.
You can convert your dates in either way
I believe you can write your query using a timestamp. Eg.
SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE firstaccess >= TIMESTAMP('2010-04-12')
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/timestamp.html
I don't know what form the date in your form is, but you can easily convert it to a timestamp (if it already isn't one) using mktime. For example:
$mytimestamp=mktime(0,0,0, $month, $day, $year);
Then just add it to your query:
$myQuery= "SELECT whatever FROM sometable WHERE " . $mytimestamp . ">=firstaccess";
Like Paul Peelen, my answer is a MySQL query. I'm going the other way, though, and converting first access into a date.
Using the date information in your problem:
SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE DATE_FORMAT(FROM_UNIXTIME(firstaccess), '%Y-%m-%d') > '2010-04-12';
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in our database, we have a column called ctime containing datetime in this format '1408097567'
I'd like to know how to convert this to date format like 'mm/yy/dd' using mysql or php
thank you very much I appreciate your help
Since the format is a UNIX Timestamp you can use php's date function:
$time = '1408097567';
$time = date('M/Y/d', $time);
Use FROM_UNIXTIME()
SELECT FROM_UNIXTIME(ctime) as ctime
FROM your_table
If you need a specific date format use DATE_FORMAT() too.
I have a table called pm_msg with a time column and the following values:
07-02-2013 18:11:00
27-01-2013 16:02:44
28-01-2013 10:30:26
30-01-2013 13:30:06
I would like to convert them to Unix timestamp while running an PDO SQL query.
This is what I've done so far, but it seems to return an error. How should I go about doing it?
$sql = "SELECT * from pm_msg ORDER BY (strtotime(time)) ASC;";
strtotime does not exist in MySQL, you want the UNIX_TIMESTAMP function:
$sql = "SELECT * from pm_msg ORDER BY (UNIX_TIMESTAMP(time)) ASC;";
But - you don't need to convert it to a UNIX timestamp just to sort it. Sorting works correctly on dates? Maybe you intend to add the UNIX_TIMESTAMP to the SELECT portion?
UTC is more or less the same as GMT - does not take into account of DST.
So in spring and autumn you need to take that into account.
But to convert a date/time into unixtime using SQL see STR_TO_DATE or UNIXTIMESTAMP
It would be easier to setup your time column as datetime, if you are using something like varchar right now.
I am working with dates, in both PHP as well as MySQL. EVerytime I use to convert date in unix format. But this time I have taken field in DB as date. But issue is it is taking yyyy-mm-dd format. I want to store it in dd-mm-yyyy format. Is this possible if I set default setting of DB. or each time I have to explode the dd-mm-yyyy format in PHP and convert it in YYYY-MM-DD format. Its my first query.
Second query is I wish to fetch the records from today's date. I mean dates after today's date. Like today then tomorrow then so on.... Is it possible to use order by on date field.
Just use:
$date = date('d-m-Y', strtotime($dateFromDB));
That will convert from MySQL DateTime to the format you have specified.
It is possible to order by date fields, e.g.:
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE date > [yourDate]
ORDER BY date [DESC | ASC]
Your second requirement contradicts with the first one.
If you store your date in dd-mm-yyyy format, you'll be unable to sort your dates.
So - yes, you have to "explode" the dd-mm-yyyy date in PHP or format it any other way. That's not a big deal though. Everyone does it.
If you have a field of type 'datetime' you can use the MySQL-Command: FROM_UNIXTIME(%d) for conversion. 'order by' should be no problem.
Store the date in default format that is yyyy-mm-dd
when you want to display in front end
use the following query to
select otherFields, date_format(dateField,'%d-%m-%Y') from tableName;
For ordering by date
SELECT * FROM tbl
ORDER BY date DESC
I use NOW() function but I get this weird date:
2011-11-06
How do I get the following European date:
ss:mm:hh dd:mm:year (06-11-2011)
In my database I set the field column date as DATE
How do you integrate DATEFORMAT into this query:
$avatar_Q=mysql_query("
SELECT user_name,avatar,reputation,comment, DATE_FORMAT(date,'%d/%m/%Y %h:%i') AS rightNow
FROM comments AS com
INNER JOIN users AS us ON com.user_id=us.user_id
WHERE comment_id=$commentID
") or die(mysql_error());
The date is is in the column table
MySQL uses the following date format - YYYY-MM-DD - if you want a different format you need to use the DATE_FORMAT function on select
for example :
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(datecolumn,"%d/%m/%Y %h:%i")
FROM atable
To integrate the date_format function into your select statement you need to list the fields individually
Yep, use a Timestamp column and insert with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. It saves a lot of time! :)
My personal recommendation is to save the date as a UNIX Timestamp (using the time() function) ,
This way you could format it as you wish .
Shai.
DATE_FORMAT
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format
That format is just how MySQL stores the data type DATE: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/datetime.html.
If you're using the DATE data type for you column you can either:
Use the DATE_FORMAT function in your SQL to get the date in your desired format
Use a combination of PHP's strtotime and date functions to display your date in the most appropriate format
Like many people, I am totally confused by the many date functions in PHP and MySQL. What I need is a to be able to store a date in MySQL and be able to view it on the screen in a human readable format, search on it by month, year, or combination of both using a standard web form, or sort it on months or years.
Example search would be all the records for febuary for the past 5 years.
I have a javascript calendar that inputs the month in the form as 02-12-2011.
What is the best format to use for this. What should the field be in MySQL.
Thanks
Please make use of the DateTime object.
Store the dates in mysql as a DATE format.
When writing the data
$date = new DateTime($_POST['date']);
or
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d-m-Y', $_POST['date']);
$query = sprintf("INSERT INTO `data` SET `date` = '%s'", $date->format('Y-m-d'))
When reading the data out create a DateTime object.
$date = new DateTime($row['date']);
Then you can print it in whatever format you want, e.g. You javascript's format:
echo $date->format('d-m-Y');
See
http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php
and for date formats:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
As far as searches go, you can use mysql Date functions on the fields.
For all records in February for the last 5 years.
SELECT * FROM `data` WHERE MONTH(`date`) = 2 AND YEAR(`date`) >= YEAR(NOW()) - 5
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html
The column type in MySQL should be date.
it's a date, so store it as a DATE column. You can either use UNIX_TIMESTAMP() in your SQL query or strtotime in PHP, to convert this back to a value that can be passed in to the php date() function, to output whatever format date you'd like.