What's the recommended way to store current time using PHP and MySQL?

Question

My initial approach was:

$current = time(); // save this to column CURRENT_TIME with column type VARCHAR

//retrieve it like this
$retrieved = mysql_query(..         


        

Answer 1

Well, you can turn a MySQL TIMESTAMP field into a PHP Time() value by using strtotime()

Then you just have to make a function that correctly turns a PHP Time() value into a MySQL TIMESTAMP value.