Sure using MySQL specific calls is faster but makes you more dependant on MySQL and thus makes your application less portable to other databases.
Cameron John Holmes wrote: > > > Did you even read the replies? Why are you going to do a bunch of string > manipulation, mktime, and date calls in PHP when you can just use > DATE_FORMAT() in your query and get exactly what you want without any > additional work by PHP? > > Take a little time and Read Chapter 6 of the MySQL manual. It will save > you a ton of work later on... > > ---John Holmes... > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
