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Asked: 2026-05-31T19:10:08+00:00

I have what is most likely a very simple question.. I am designing a

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I have what is most likely a very simple question.. I am designing a simple blogging system and I am trying to put the current date into the table where the blog post is stored whilst waiting for administrator approval. but the method I have used puts 0000-00-00 into the date column! What I am using is as follows:

$query = "INSERT INTO blogentry VALUES ('".$mnam."','".date('d-m-Y h:m:s') ."\n"."','".$mcom."','".$approve."')";

I am relatively new to php so stumble accross errors like this all the time… but I cant seem to google this one!

Thanks guys!

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  1. Editorial Team

    So the easiest way to do this is just let MySQL handle it with the NOW() function:

    INSERT INTO blogentry VALUES( ..., NOW(), ... )

    Another option is to use TIMESTAMPs by changing your table – set the column to type TIMESTAMP with DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, and you can just ignore that column when inserting – it will automatically be filled with the current time. You will need to specify the columns you’re inserting to in order to skip a column:

    INSERT INTO blogentry( column1, column2 ) VALUES( column1value, column2value )

    Finally, you NEED to sanitize your inputs. Preferably using prepared statements and PDO (http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.prepared-statements.php), or at least using mysql_real_escape_string.

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