sorting dates with php

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi,

Have a load of dates in the format DD/MM/YY. Thet are stored as a VARCHAR on 
a mysql DB.

I need a way to sort them into order(most recent first)


Using the QUERY   $query = "SELECT doc_date FROM papers ORDER BY doc_date 
DESC";

this just arranges them by day. e.g


30/12/2005
30/11/2005
22/12/2005
19/12/2005
17/12/2005
12/12/2005
10/12/2005
06/12/2007
06/09/2002
05/12/2005
05/09/2005



Now I have tried to use strtotime() but I find this needs a timezone (GMT) 
to work and I don't know if the server supports it. Also I find strototime() 
and mktime() very confusing and a things go wrong of you work in GMT because 
we also have Brittish Summer Time where the clocks get put back/forward at 
certain time of the year.

Is there a simple function like sort() that could do it??

R. 

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


[Index of Archives]     [PHP Home]     [Apache Users]     [PHP on Windows]     [Kernel Newbies]     [PHP Install]     [PHP Classes]     [Pear]     [Postgresql]     [Postgresql PHP]     [PHP on Windows]     [PHP Database Programming]     [PHP SOAP]

  Powered by Linux