Question

I am currently developing a sports website where one of the pages with be forthcoming fixtures in which the user will be able to what team and where the team are playing their next match.

I have a database with the following fields…

• ID
• TEAM NUMBER
• OPPOSITION
• VENUE
• DATE
• MEET TIME
• MATCH TYPE

So a row of data pulled from the DB and print_r’d may look like this

ID=>[1] TEAM NUMBER=>[1] OPPOSITION=>[YORKSHIRE] VENUE=>[HOME] DATE=>[2009/4/25] MEET TIME=>[13.00] MATCH TYPE=>[CUP]

My problem is i cannot work out how to show the next match dependent on what the current date is, so for example for now I want the site to show all the games that will happen over the weeken of the 25th April 2009 and then once that has gone the fixtures for the next weekend.

Hope this makes sense and some one give me an idea of how to tackle this.

Answer 1

Instead of relying entirely on MySQL, you can also use PHP’s strtotime() function:

$query = 'select * from my_events where date between now() and '. date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+1 week'));