Question

How would i go about checking to see if an auction has expired in my database? I have a datetime column in MySQL that i believe is of the following format: YYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss. If this is the case would the following check work – i.e. want to select only expired auctions from the table in the database…

<?php

//Some code    

$auctioncheck = mysql_query("

 SELECT * FROM auction WHERE ($date_time > finish_time)

");

?>

While “finish time” is a column in the database of the above cited format. Presuming this works how actually do i get the current date into the same format? If anybody knows i would very grateful cheers. Even more so if the above query wouldn’t work and something else is required. Thanks again.

Oh and of course i would define the date_time variable to start with

Answer 1

This solution:

// to show both date and time,
$date->get('YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss');

// or, to show date only
$date->get('YYYY-MM-dd') 

is from this post: PHP Zend date format

and here’s another solution: how to format a Date in MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss format in javascript?

and to do it in php:
How to get the current date and time in PHP?