If you are using MySql with the date field is of type timestamp, you should have to insert anything using the query. It will update automatically when the record is inserted and/or updated. ie; $denylog = "INSERT INTO deny (account, td ) VALUES ($tmp, $td )"; Randy -----Original Message----- From: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) [mailto:sn4265@sbc.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 1:47 PM To: 'jay@advmed.com' Cc: 'php-db@lists.php.net' Subject: RE: Datetime help in an INSERT... The error I am receiving is: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ' NOW())' at line 1 -----Original Message----- From: jay@advmed.com [mailto:jay@advmed.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 1:45 PM To: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) Subject: Re: Datetime help in an INSERT... what kind of error are you getting? > I am stumbling across something that I thought I have done before, > and I am not having any luck finding an example of this. Basically, I am > wanting to timestamp the date and time into new entries in a simple database > table. The following section is the actual code for this, and I cannot > figure out how to get the date/time stamp to populate into the database. > Thanks in advance for the help. I suspect this is a very simple fix. > > $denylog = "INSERT INTO deny (account, td, date) VALUES ($tmp, $td, NOW())"; > $denylog_result = mysql_query($denylog, $Prod) or die(mysql_error()); > > Scott Nipp > Phone: (214) 858-1289 > E-mail: sn4265@sbc.com > Web: http:\\ldsa.sbcld.sbc.com > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php