Whay is the U_Birthday field in db is varchar ?
Meny meny tims ago i've writen hack for birthday but i used date type. Now i trying to convert ... With data i can easy get statistics of users' age groups like
teenagers - 30% - 555 user
from 20 to 25 - 25% - 500 users
from 25 to 30 ...
etc
And meny other good things...
I think its better to use date type for stosring date in DB
sorry for my english