How to save field TimeStamp data type?

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Hello,
If I have in MySQL table field timestamp type, how to save data?

I get string like ‘1378283588’ (it’s timestamp) and I would like to store it like timestamp in DB.

If I dod $this->save($data['Model"][‘my_time’] = ‘1378283588’ - I get “0000-00-00 00:00:00” . I see it in phpMyAdmin.

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I think in MySQL the column type needs to be INT(11) if you want unix style timestamp.

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hakim> Yes, but it INT. MySQL has timestamp type.

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Dude, MySQL timstamp is not unix time, it’s the data type is used for values that contain both date and time parts. TIMESTAMP has a range of ‘1970-01-01 00:00:01’ UTC to ‘2038-01-19 03:14:07’ UTC.

If you want to save unix time, then the column needs to be INT.

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hakim> It’s clear.

But if I would like to save dada in a field with timestamp type, How to prepare it?
in MySQL I can use the function FROM_UNIXTIME .

Thank you.

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It would have to be string iso date format “YYYY-DD-MM HH:MM:SS” … Do you need this for “created” and “modified” columns? Cake can do this for you with timestamp behaviour:
https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/orm/behaviors/timestamp.html

So when a record is created or modified, cake will update these for you.

However the column in MySQL needs to be “datetime” not “timestamp” for this to work.

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I know this feature and use it. I get data from another service.