Hello:

I create a CGI to administrate news items, I've created the database on MySQL. Each of the news items has a timestamp field to know the date and time each of the news where submited.

When a user sees a news item I run a function that adds the number of views that item has: 

sub add_views{

my $id = shift;
my $current_views = shift;

   my $new_views = $current_views + 1;

my($dbh,$sth);
$dbh = BaboonDB->connect();
   $sth = $dbh->prepare('UPDATE news SET views=? WHERE id=?') or die("
+Couldn't prepare statement: " . $dbh->errstr);
   $sth->execute($new_views,$id) or die("Couldn't execute statement: "
+ . $sth->errstr);
   $sth->finish;
$dbh->disconnect;

return($new_views);

}

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The code runs correctly and adds the views without a problem. The thing is that when I update the views field, the timestamp field is also updated.

What I would like to know if there is a way to avoid this?

THANKS

In reply to Bug on MySQL? timestamp problem by kidd

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