Question

I want to create a table with column like this.

CREATE  TABLE `user_gender` (
  `user_gender_id` INT(11) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
  `user_gender_title` VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL ,
  `user_gender_modified_on` DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT 0000-00-00 00:00:00 ,
  `user_gender_created_on` DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT 0000-00-00 00:00:00 ,
  PRIMARY KEY (`user_gender_id`) )
ENGINE = InnoDB;

but it seem that the default 0000-00-00 cant work in mysql. however i imitated it from joomla database model so I am pretty sure that it should work correctly. but my phpadmin keep saying there is a syntax errors in -00-00. can anyone explain this?

Answer 1

Try putting the drefault values in quotes:

CREATE  TABLE `user_gender` (
  `user_gender_id` INT(11) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
  `user_gender_title` VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL ,
  `user_gender_modified_on` DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00' ,
  `user_gender_created_on` DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00' ,
  PRIMARY KEY (`user_gender_id`) )
ENGINE = InnoDB;