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Top Forums Web Development Notes with Ravinder on Badging System Development Part II Post 303028191 by Neo on Tuesday 1st of January 2019 01:04:01 PM
Old 01-01-2019
Hey Ravinder.

If I were you, I would do this query:

Code:
mysql> select joindate from user where userid =1;

Take that result subtracted from today in UNIXTIME and divide by the number of seconds in year.

That gives you the number of years a person has been a member.

You don't need that fancy MySQL query with all the date / time functions for such a trivial requirement.

As you are beginner in programming, keep it simple... well, I suggest you keep it simple all your life; it's easier to debug or change when you look at the code in 10 years..... keep it simple. Do not be seduced by fancy queries and logic which look cool.... like many programmers and tech people do.

Keep it simple so that a 10th grader can understand it.
 

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Time::Seconds(3pm)					 Perl Programmers Reference Guide					Time::Seconds(3pm)

NAME
Time::Seconds - a simple API to convert seconds to other date values SYNOPSIS
use Time::Piece; use Time::Seconds; my $t = localtime; $t += ONE_DAY; my $t2 = localtime; my $s = $t - $t2; print "Difference is: ", $s->days, " "; DESCRIPTION
This module is part of the Time::Piece distribution. It allows the user to find out the number of minutes, hours, days, weeks or years in a given number of seconds. It is returned by Time::Piece when you delta two Time::Piece objects. Time::Seconds also exports the following constants: ONE_DAY ONE_WEEK ONE_HOUR ONE_MINUTE ONE_MONTH ONE_YEAR ONE_FINANCIAL_MONTH LEAP_YEAR NON_LEAP_YEAR Since perl does not (yet?) support constant objects, these constants are in seconds only, so you cannot, for example, do this: "print ONE_WEEK->minutes;" METHODS
The following methods are available: my $val = Time::Seconds->new(SECONDS) $val->seconds; $val->minutes; $val->hours; $val->days; $val->weeks; $val->months; $val->financial_months; # 30 days $val->years; $val->pretty; # gives English representation of the delta The usual arithmetic (+,-,+=,-=) is also available on the objects. The methods make the assumption that there are 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 365.24225 days in a year and 12 months in a year. (from The Calendar FAQ at http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html) AUTHOR
Matt Sergeant, matt@sergeant.org Tobias Brox, tobiasb@tobiasb.funcom.com BalXzs SzabX (dLux), dlux@kapu.hu LICENSE
Please see Time::Piece for the license. Bugs Currently the methods aren't as efficient as they could be, for reasons of clarity. This is probably a bad idea. POD ERRORS
Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below: Around line 245: Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'BalXzs'. Assuming UTF-8 perl v5.18.2 2014-01-06 Time::Seconds(3pm)
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