Hi Jim, With all due respect, I think you have made some good arguments and I would tend to agree with you. All things considered, usually using a default value like that will be a liability later. However, we dont know what this guy is up to. There could be good reason for using that default date. Perhaps he or his boss wants a value there because of database or indexing constraints and they do not have control of the schema- who knows. The guy asked his question with the particular conditions he is interested in. Perhaps your arguments will sway him but is there really a need to grill the guy? On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On 1/10/2014 4:53 PM, Robert wrote: > >> >> I have a date field on an html form that users may leave blank. If they >> do leave it blank I want to write the date 01/01/1901 into the mysql >> table. How can I accomplish this and where in my .php script file should >> I put the code? >> >> Thank You, >> Robert >> flahurr@xxxxxxxxxxx >> > Robert, > It really makes no sense to post a completely fabricated value into your > date field to represent 'the absence' of a date. From now on you will be > forced to mask that value OUT of your output displays since I'm fairly > certain you will not want to show people that silly date value. Do you > realize that just leaving the date = null you will accomplish the same > thing and you won't have to 'hide' it when you call up a record and send it > to the client? > > Can you give us one valid reason that you wish to do this thing? > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
