As well as it assumes that a delete trigger takes care of any dependent existences with other rows in other tables. Secondly, what is the purpose of all assignments below? -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Vesely To: 'Php2tor '; 'php-windows@lists.php.net ' Sent: 3-10-2003 18:35 Subject: RE: Mysql Purge script This assumes one of the columns on your DB is RecordCreated: $today = getdate(); $year = $today['year']; $month = $today['mon']; $day = $today['mday']; $hours = $today['hours']; $minutes = $today['minutes']; $seconds = $today['seconds']; $RecordCreated = $year."-".$month."-".$day." ".$hours.":".$minutes.":".$seconds; $delete_query = "DELETE from $table1 where (TO_DAYS(Now()) - TO_DAYS(RecordCreated) >= 30));"; $execute_delete = mysql_query($delete_query) or die ("delete failed"); ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan Vesely Sales Engineer Pinnacor 685 Market Street, Suite 500 San Francisco, CA 94105 tel 415.369.4762 fax 415.512.2085 www.pinnacor.com <http://www.pinnacor.com/> The preceding e-mail message contains privileged, confidential information. Intended conveyance is only to designated and named recipient(s). If you feel that you may have received this message in error or if you are not the named recipient, please notify Pinnacor at once at the sender's email address, or call 212.691.7900. Unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. -----Original Message----- From: Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG) [mailto:B.A.T.Svensson@lumc.nl] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 9:27 AM To: 'Php2tor '; 'php-windows@lists.php.net ' Subject: RE: Mysql Purge script DELETE FROM <table(s)> WHERE <some-date-attribute-converted-to-days> > <than-30-days> -----Original Message----- From: Php2tor To: php-windows@lists.php.net Sent: 3-10-2003 18:15 Subject: Mysql Purge script Does anyone have a script that will purge a MySQL DB that has entries over 30 days old? -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php