Question

I have a form that posts the Date, Title, Message and Image into an SQL table. It all works fine, except the form, it has a field that I have to manually enter the date and time.

What I want to know is how can I get the PHP to get the date & time (GMT time) of when the form button is pressed and post it into the “time” section of my sql table instead of me doing it manually, I’m using this as a ultra lightweight CMS blog.

This is my insert.php

mysql_query("INSERT INTO Blog
(Date, Title, Message, Image)
VALUES('$_POST[Date]', '$_POST[Title]' , '$_POST[Message]' , '$_POST[Image]' ) ")
or die(mysql_error());

echo "1 record added";

This is my form

<form action="insert.php" method="post">
<span class="label">Date:       </span>     <input type="text" class="dateField" name="Date" />
<span class="label">Title:      </span>     <input type="text" class="titleField" name="Title" />
<span class="label">Message:    </span>     <textarea  name="Message" class="messageField" maxlength="1000" cols="0" rows="0"></textarea>
<span class="label">Image URL:      </span>     <input type="text" class="ImageField"  name="Image" />
<input type="submit" class="submitBtn"/>
</form>

I want the server to add the Time/Date instead of me typing it in manually. Is this easily done?

Answer 1

mysql_query("INSERT INTO Blog (Date, Title, Message, Image) 
            VALUES(now(), '" . $_POST[Title] . "' , '" . $_POST[Message] . "' , 
            '" . $_POST[Image] . "' ) ") or die(mysql_error());