I'm rather new to using MySQL instead of DB-File and have a question.

I have records that I want stored and sorted by time. I'm going to have a pulldown where the user can either see TODAY'S data, all data in the last 7 days (week), and then by each of the last 12 months.

My question is, how would I store the time so I could sort by this? Would I just save $time = localtime(); and store it like this? 

  my $data = qq(INSERT INTO searches (search, engine, time) values(?,?
+,?));
  my $sth = $dbh->prepare($data);
  $sth->execute("$search", "$engine", $time;

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It would make sense if I could save it where the month name would be stored so I wouldn't have to write a snippet to convert it back to month names for the print out.

Anyway, I just need to know how I'd store the timefield with an example because I'm new to mysql.

In reply to sorting mysql by week and year by Anonymous Monk

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