Hello Michael, token_date must be a DATE FIELD... http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Column_types.html MG> Hello, MG> I need to store the date of record / entry in the mysql database, so I have the following table create statement: MG> CREATE TABLE `token_table` ( MG> `token_id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, MG> `token_utuser_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', MG> `token_name` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '', MG> `token_date` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '', MG> `token_user_id` varchar(100) default '', MG> `token_ticket_id` varchar(100) default '', MG> `token_data` varchar(100) default '', MG> PRIMARY KEY (`token_id`), MG> KEY `tokencheck` (`token_utuser_id`,`token_name`) MG> ) TYPE=MyISAM; MG> So in the token_date field I am storing the date in the following format from PHP: MG> date("d/m/Y") which creates the following entry "05/07/2004" (example). MG> I would like to know fro the list is ... is this the best way to store the date ? Would this be easy to select against ? MG> Michael. -- Best regards, Pablo -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php