Question

hey, I’m wondering how to retrieve data from my database using php to get the top songs today.

Right now I’m just getting the top songs using

$result = mysql_query("SELECT tag, COUNT(*) AS the_tags FROM tags GROUP BY tag ORDER BY the_tags DESC LIMIT 16");

I am also storing the date in the tags table aswell, in the format

07-25-2010

so Month – Day – Year

How can i have it limit the results to tags with the date of today?

Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

Another way to do it:

"SELECT tag, COUNT(*) AS the_tags FROM tags WHERE `date` = '" . date('m-d-Y') . "' GROUP BY tag ORDER BY the_tags DESC LIMIT 16"

But I prefer to use MySQL’s date (so I would say see artefacto’s post)