Getting time with PHP/mySQL and wordpress plugin

Question

I got a little problem over here. It's about wordpress plugin but support will probably answer me in 1-2days. Maybe someone over here know the answer.

I am using myCRED plugin. It gives mi permission to give some user points on my website. So when I am giving someone points via wordpress panel then in mySQL table there is a column "time". Could someone figure this out?

Date -> php code entry in "time" column
April 24, 2014 4:28 pm -> 1398356897
April 24, 2014 3:27 pm -> 1398284766
April 23, 2014 4:30 pm -> 1398270617

I want to make php script which will add record to this table but I don't know how to fill "time" column corectly. Anyone here know function for this?

That's what I tried //you shouldn't really care about other variables. Just about the last one column called "time".

$time = time();

mysql_query("INSERT INTO wp_myCRED_log (user_id, creds, entry, time)
VALUES (".$_POST['user_id'].", '-".$_POST['price']."', 'Bought:".$_POST['reward']."', '".$time."' ; )");

If you still don't know what I mean just ask :)

Regreds, Guy with a problem.

Answer 1

This is Unix timestamp representing the date.

Answer 2

You will need to use php's Time() function to get the current unix timestamp.

i.e.

$time = time(); and then insert the $time variable into your query.

Use "$time" in your query since php will take the $ literally in single ticks, and use date(); as need to display this as a date.

mysql_query("INSERT INTO wp_myCRED_log (user_id, creds, entry, `time`)
VALUES (".$_POST['user_id'].", '-".$_POST['price']."', 'Bought:".$_POST['reward']."', '".$time."' ; )");