Current time when MySQL record is saved to database

Question

I\'m working with Zend Framework 1.12 and Mysql. I want to add column in database, which save currenct datetime when record was inserted into table.

Anyone knows how can

Answer 1

There are different ways to do so.

You can define data type TIMESTAMP and set default value to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

You can define column with data type datetime and use now() or sysdate() to get current date and time.

For eg.

 INSERT INTO `table_name`(current_time) VALUES(now());

or

 INSERT INTO `table_name`(current_time) VALUES(sysdate());

Answer 2

You can just define the column like:

DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

Answer 3

you must change column type to TIMESTAMP , and in default field set CURRENT_TIMESTAMP