Question

Am I not seeing something obvious here, can’t seem to get this to work…

if (($_GET['date']=='today'))
{ 
    $today = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('today'));     
    $query = "SELECT * FROM contacts WHERE (contacttype = 'Buyer' OR "
           . "contacttype = 'Seller' OR contacttype = 'Buyer / Seller' OR "
           . "contacttype = 'Investor') AND date = '$today' ORDER BY date DESC";
}

Thanks!

Answer 1

You don’t even need to use PHP to tell MySQL what today is, it already knows!

SELECT * FROM contacts WHERE (contacttype = 'Buyer' OR contacttype = 'Seller' OR contacttype = 'Buyer / Seller' OR contacttype = 'Investor') AND date = DATE(NOW()) ORDER BY date DESC

will work, assuming all of the other conditions in your WHERE clause are correct. See MySQL’s date() and now() reference.