Re: how to display new icon for news posted within 2 days?

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Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> paragasu wrote:
>> is it possible to do it like
> SELECT *, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(post_date)-172,800 as is_new FROM tbl
> $post = mysqli_fetch_object($sql);
> if($post->is_new)
> echo '<img src=new.gif">';
> 
> From what I can tell, you'll just have a timestamp 2 days earlier than
> the actual post date in the is_new var.  So unless the post date is
> 0000172800 or earlier it will eval to true.  How about:
> 
> SELECT *, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(post_date) as ts FROM tbl
> 
> if($post->ts > (time()-172800)) {
> 	echo '<img src="new.gif">';
> }
> 
> 
In MySQL 5+ something like this may work with your code:

SELECT *, IF(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) -
UNIX_TIMESTAMP(post_date) < 172800, 1, 0)
AS is_new FROM tbl

-- 
Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com

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