date createed / date updated

Hi,
To fill a field with the current date you can find this line in ..._edit.php file:

and replace it with:

where datefield is your actual field name.

Thanks for the answer.

No another question linked to change to php files.

Once we rebuild the solution, we loose all changes ?
Thanks.

Yes, all changes to files will be lost after project rebuild.

I am wanting to have the status_date field change automaticly to the current day everytime a record is edited and saved. This is something I used to use in version 3.0 using the method in this posting. I am finding it difficult to apply to version 3.1.
Is there a way to do this from within PHPRunner now without having to hack the code?
thanks

Hi, hfg.
You can do it using Before record updated event on the Events tab. Here is a sample code:

$values["status_date"] = now();

Thanks for the reply but I think I'm still missing something, I added the following code to the events. But when I go to the edit screen the date shown in Status_Date is still the perviously saved date.
Thanks for the help
My Code:
function BeforeEdit(&$values, $where)

{
// Parameters:

// $values - Array object.

// Each field on the Edit form represented as 'Field name'-'Field value' pair

// $where - string with WHERE clause pointing to record to be edited
//** Custom code ****

// put your custom code here
$values["Status_Date"] = now();
return true;
// return true if you like to proceed with editing this record

// return false in other case
}

Hi,
status_date field will be updated when you save this record.

If you want to update this field before opening EDIT page use EditOnLoad event:

function EditOnLoad()

That did the job, thanks