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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php