Is there a way to return timestamp after updating timestamp using now()

Question

I have query like:

UPDATE orders SET order_state = $state_id, order_confirmed = now() WHERE order_id = $id LIMIT 1

I'm just wondering if there was a function in php or sql that returned the updated timestamp kind of like insert id.

Answer 1

How about

SELECT now() FROM orders LIMIT 1

or

SELECT now() FROM dual

Answer 2

To avoid second query, use php's DateTime Object and format it, instead of Mysql's NOW()

$now = new DateTime;
    UPDATE orders SET order_state = $state_id, order_confirmed = $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') WHERE order_id = $id LIMIT 1