Question

I worked on a site locally through my Laptop. I have a table named blog and it has the fields post_id, title, markdown, author, added, and modified.

The fields Added and Modified are both DATETIME’s.

When a user makes a blog post, PHP runs this query successfully: INSERT INTO blog (title, author, markdown, added) VALUES ('BLA', 'BLA', 'BLA', NOW())

I’ve gone into phpMyAdmin and ran the exact same query with working results.

Now, I exported my exact database into the server today and I noticed that no posts were being stored in the DB, so I tried running it through phpMyAdmin’s SQL and it gave me the error Field 'modified' doesn't have a default value.

Why would this be happening? In my database, the default for both is None so I’m quite confused on what could be causing this.

My Laptop has PHP 5.3.1 and MySQL 5.1.41 (I installed XAMPP.)
The Server has PHP 5.3.5 and MySQL 5.5.8 (Out of desperation I installed the newest versions. The server was originally running MySQL 5.1 and a lower version of PHP.)

This has been killing me, hopefully someone knows what’s wrong with this or how to fix it.

Edit: Here are the SHOW CREATE TABLE blog results.

Laptop:

| blog  | CREATE TABLE `blog` (
  `post_id` mediumint(9) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `title` varchar(160) NOT NULL,
  `author` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
  `markdown` longtext NOT NULL,
  `added` datetime NOT NULL,
  `modified` datetime NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`post_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=7 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 |

Server:

| blog  | CREATE TABLE `blog` (
  `post_id` mediumint(9) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `title` varchar(160) NOT NULL,
  `author` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
  `markdown` longtext NOT NULL,
  `added` datetime NOT NULL,
  `modified` datetime NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`post_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=2 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 |

Auto Increments are different because of my tests.

Answer 1

ALTER TABLE blog CHANGE modified modified TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP; 

Or, more rarely, you might have a buggy version of MySQL on your server.

*I might have the syntax imperfect, I referred to the last comment on ALTER TABLE at the bottom of the manual page.