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Asked: 2026-05-20T10:15:07+00:00

i found an old blog script (very old) kicking around on my PC. im

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i found an old blog script (very old) kicking around on my PC. im having troubles with fetching the date and time from my DB to display in PHP. Can someone help me.
This is my MySQL DB setup.

CREATE TABLE blog_posts (
  id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  title varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
  news text NOT NULL,
  poster varchar(15) NOT NULL default '',
  date timestamp(14) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (id)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

And this is what im using to send a post:

<?php

include "db.php";   
    $title=$_POST['title'];
    $news=$_POST['news'];
    $poster=$_POST['poster'];

    $query="INSERT INTO $blogposts (title, news, poster) VALUES ('$title', '$news', '$poster')";
    $result=mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());

    mysql_close();

    header("Location: post.php");
?>

And finally this is what im using to call the date on the front-end:

<?php echo "posted on: - ".$day.".".$month.".".$year." at ".$hour.":".$min; ?>

I’m no expert (clearly) but the call for the date doesnt look right to me. Anyone have any ideas on how i could make it work, or even make it better??

EDIT::

<?php

    include "db.php";

//query
    $query="SELECT * FROM ".$blogposts." ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 0,$limit ";
    $result=mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());

//loop
    while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
    {
$querycomment = "SELECT ID FROM ".$newscomments." WHERE newsid=".$row['id'];
$resultcomment=mysql_query($querycomment) or die (mysql_error());
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($resultcomment);

    ereg("^([0-9]{4})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})",$row['date'],$res);
    $year=$res[1];
    $month=$res[2];
    $day=$res[3];
    $hour=$res[4];
    $min=$res[5];
    $sec=$res[6];


?>

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  1. Editorial Team

    As date column has TIMESTAMP data type and got not null constraint so it will have default current_timestamp value if no data posted on date column while inserting. see mysql timestamp ref manual.

    So to achieve a result that you ask you can try fetch that data by using code like this:

    $sql = "select id, title, news, poster, DATE_FORMAT(date,'%d.%m.%Y at %k:%i') as posteddate from blog_posts";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    echo $row["title"]."<br/>";
    echo "By : " . $row["poster"]."<br/>";
    echo "posted on: -  " . $row["posteddate"]."<br/>"; //"posted on: - 03.03.2011 at 7:35"
}
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