Help please !! Need to insert date automatically in form

Question

I have been trying unsuccessfully for a week to automatically
capture today's date on a form. I can display a date on screen but
it will not insert date into mySQL db. All other information is
inserted as expected.
Am I just whistling in dark? Is there no way to eliminate
user input for the order date field?
I have looked throughout the forums and no luck.
Anyone have any ideas about how to do?
Thanks,
Dale :-)

Answer 1

You can use a timestamp function within your MySQL table, but
remember you can only use the timestamp function ONCE in a table.
Using the timestamp Function:
Set the field type to TIMESTAMP. You can also set the default
to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and the attributes to ON UPDATE
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP if you want the timestamp to change when the
record is updated.
If you want to record times more than the one time you are
using the timestamp and you are using PHP/MySQL or PHP/MySQL ADODB
(InterAKT's PhAKT Extension), then try this:
http://chuckomalley.net/help/insert_date_help.php
That gets the time into the MySQL Database. Next thing you'll
want to do is to have it display the time the way you want it. The
default will display it as yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss and you may not want
it that way. To display it the way you want it try this:
http://chuckomalley.net/help/display_formatted_date.php
For the specific syntax on using this, refer to the online
MySQL Manual and search for DATE_FORMAT() at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html
Cheers
Chuck