How to keep history of record updates in MySQL?

Question

I have to create a code in PHP that will allow me to keep the history of record updates in MySQL database so I can find by date an old revision.

Here is the example

Answer 1

The easiest solution (depending on your specific needs) would probably be to add an on update/insert/delete trigger to your table, so you can perform extra logging when data is inserted/updated/deleted. That way even manual interventions on the db will be covered...

Check http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/triggers.html for more information.