Comments on: MySQL: Created & Modified Date Fields

By: luis

luis — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:10:12 +0000

Great just what I needed

The only down side of this aproach is you have to create a trigger for each table.

Any way works fine.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:48:40 +0000

Hi Alexander,

I don’t think you’re understanding the solution correctly. You don’t need to create another table with the ID of the parent row and then two fields to capture the created and modified dates. You can simply apply these fields to your existing tables and create the trigger on the table. Then, every row after those updates are applied will keep track of created and modified dates.

By: Alexander Conroy

Alexander Conroy — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:02:15 +0000

You just solved a major issue of mine. I was looking for a method to create a timestamp field and maybe store data in an array and explode it to read it, but creating an entire table and just use a meta key, and id number to pull information works much better.

Thanks.

By: Edward Prislac

Edward Prislac — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:42:46 +0000

You are a godsend, my friend, thanks for the info on created & updated timestamps, I was really having trouble with it until I came across your article.