Question

Hello everyone: I am trying to get a data pull from MySQL within a PHP file that I have. The user passes in a date (represented currently by ‘$selectedDate’), and I want the query to pull all events that match that date.

The problem is that the MySQL date is in a unix format, meaning it has hours, seconds, etc. The passed in date is date only, so there won’t be an exact match.

So what I am trying to do is take my date, add a variable that is minus 1 day and another one that is plus one day and pull the events in based on that range.

The problem is that it’s not working and I have no idea why! After about 2 days of trouble shooting and searching, I am relying on you my stackoverflow friends!

Any ideas?

  $selectedDate = '9-20-2012';
  $dateComponents = preg_split('~[+*/-]~', $selectedDate);
  $date1 = mktime(0, 0, 0, ( (int)$dateComponents[0] ), (int)$dateComponents[1]-1, (int)$dateComponents[2]);
  $date2 = mktime(0, 0, 0, ( (int)$dateComponents[0] ), (int)$dateComponents[1]+1, (int)$dateComponents[2]);

  $query = "SELECT id,title,start, DATE_FORMAT(start, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%i' ) AS startDate, end, url, className FROM $tableName WHERE start BETWEEN '$date1' AND '$date2' ORDER BY start";

  $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
  $array = array();

  while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
        echo($row);
       $array[] = $row; 

  }  

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can add the Minutes and Seconds to your dates before passing them into SQL.

  $selectedDate = '9-20-2012';
  $dateComponents = preg_split('~[+*/-]~', $selectedDate);
  $date1 = mktime(0, 0, 0, ( (int)$dateComponents[0] ), (int)$dateComponents[1]-1, (int)$dateComponents[2]);
  $date2 = mktime(0, 0, 0, ( (int)$dateComponents[0] ), (int)$dateComponents[1]+1, (int)$dateComponents[2]);

  $date1 = date('Y-m-d h:i',$date1);
  $date2 = date('Y-m-d h:i',$date2);

  $query = "SELECT id,title,start, DATE_FORMAT(start, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%i' ) AS startDate, end, url, className FROM $tableName WHERE start BETWEEN '$date1' AND '$date2' ORDER BY start";