Question

I am now writing some query’s for a cronjob.
The query’s need to create a table like an existing table.
Only it has to add the date of the day after (without separations) to the tablename.

I have come up with this solution:
Code to date of tomorrow:

$date = date ('dmY');
$date = strtotime(date("dmY", strtotime($date)) . " +1 day");

The query:

$queryvc = "CREATE TABLE vervanger$date LIKE vervanger;
            INSERT vervanger$date SELECT * FROM vervanger";

When I echo this in PHP it gives the result I want, but the query doesn’t execute. And I think it is because of the fact that I do not ‘cut out’ the $date from the query which is normally a must. Does anyone have a solution to this?

The query will be run once a week with a cronjob, but in the cronjob all tables with dates more than few months back will also be deleted. That way the database will not grow TOO big.

Answer 1

• 1st create archive database (vervanger_archive) .
• 2nd at original
  base if you dont have set DATE_ADD (adding timestamp for each row).
• 3rd SET 1 cron task once upon a day to move OLD rows from Original
  table to the archive table.

Creating tables with timestamp names is bad choice..