Question

Here is my code (using CodeIgniter):

$now = date('Y-m-d');

$then = strtotime($now . '-1 week');

$then = date('Y-m-d', $then);

$q3 = $this->db->query("SELECT * 
                          FROM posts 
                         WHERE publish_date BETWEEN '$then' AND '$now'");

$data['posts_today'] = $q3->num_rows();

I clearly have posted at least twenty posts this week, but it only displays ‘1’. Any ideas why?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Does this work for you:

$q3 = $this->db->query("SELECT * 
                          FROM posts 
                         WHERE publish_date BETWEEN DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 WEEK) 
                                                AND NOW()");

Potential issues I see:

• is POSTS.publish_date a DATETIME data type?
• if PHP and MySQL are on different hosts, NOW from codeigniter/PHP could be a different time than what’s being stored/used in MySQL.