Question

I have a php look up from a drop down list. This will look up changes to a specific staff’s time card and return to a table. Works really well but I am having trouble returning the results from Line 2 and 5 and 7 to show real time not unix time, 2 is date effected, 5 is date requested and 7 in date approved/changed.
This is the code i am using.

<table border="1" width="75%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td align="center">Date Effected</td>
<td align="center">Status requested</td>
<td align="center">Requested by</td>
<td align="center">Date requested</td>
<td align="center">Amended by</td>
<td align="center">Date amended</td>
</tr>
<?php
$host = "host";
$user = "USER";
$pass = "PWORD";
$dbname = "DB";
$loc = $fgmembersite->UserLocation();
$term = $_GET['button'];
$connection = mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass) or die (mysql_errno().":    ".mysql_error()."<BR>");
mysql_select_db($dbname);
$query= "select * from $loc where User_id=$term";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Query failed: ' . mysql_error());
while ($line = mysql_fetch_row($result) )
{
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td align="center">'.$line[2].'</td>';
echo '<td align="center">'.$line[3].'</td>';
echo '<td align="center">'.$line[4].'</td>';
echo '<td align="center">'.$line[5].'</td>';
echo '<td align="center">'.$line[6].'</td>';
echo '<td align="center">'.$line[7].'</td>';
echo '</tr>';
}
?>
</table>

any help gratefully revived. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

First, stop using mysql_ functions. They are no longer maintained and are officially deprecated. See the red box? Learn about prepared statements as your code is vulnerable to SQL injection and use PDO or MySQLi – this article will help you decide which.

If I understand correctly, you’re storing the date as a unix timestamp and need to convert it. It can be done with MySQL or PHP.

With MySQL, you can use FROM_UNIXTIME().

mysql> SELECT FROM_UNIXTIME(1196440219);
    -> '2007-11-30 10:30:19'

Manual

With PHP, you can use date.

echo date("F j", 1196440219);
   //November 30

Manual

I would also recommend that you specify a column list in your query, and use those columns rather than the index value.