I assume you are trying to insert into a mysql table column that is a date. insert into table (datecol) values (from_unixtime($new_exp_day)); Example output of from_unixtime: +---------------------------+ | from_unixtime(1000000000) | +---------------------------+ | 2001-09-08 21:46:40 | +---------------------------+ Peter On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Frederik Feys wrote: > Hi all, > I searched for 5 hours, trying to solve my (newbie?) problem. I want to pick > today's date and add XXX days to it. Its setup to validate membership > period. Now my column is of date type. Aswell, I want to pick current time > and add 1 hour to it. Here aswell, sessions expire after one hour. > Can anybody help me? > Thanks > Fred > My code: > $time = getdate(); > > $yr = $time[year]; > $mn = $time[mon]; > $dy = $time[mday]; > > if (subscr_type==1) { //these users van only work 1 hour > $exp_time=time()+3600; > $new_exp_day = getdate(); > } > else if (subscr_type==3) { //3 months subscription(here time doesn't really > matter) > $offset = 90; > } > else if (subscr_type==12) { //1 year subscriptions > > $offset = 365; > } > > $new_exp_day = strftime("%Y-%m-%d",mktime(0,0,0,$mn,$dy+$offset,$yr)); > > -- > Frederik Feys > > frederikfeys@pandora.be > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Systems Engineer, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation beckman@purplecow.com http://www.purplecow.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php