I want to store the timestamp which a row was inserted into a MySQL table with the row, to be later compared to other times. What’s the best field type for this and what’s the best way to insert the row with the timestamp in PHP?
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I want to store the timestamp which a row was inserted into a MySQL table with the row, to be later compared to other times. What’s the best field type for this and what’s the best way to insert the row with the timestamp in PHP?
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TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. This will create a TIMESTAMP field that is set on INSERT, but not on UPDATE.