Question

I can’t get my select statement to filter a datetime column on today:
I only need the rowcount (how many)

$u_today = date('Y-m-d');
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM wds_sec1tasks WHERE due_date = '$u_today'");
$u_rows = mysql_num_rows($query);
echo $u_rows;

Do I need to grab the left 10 chars of the datetime to compare? substr(due_date,0,10)?

thanks,
JM

Answer 1

You have to convert due_date in a DATE first by doing this:

SELECT * FROM wds_sec1tasks WHERE DATE(due_date) = '$u_today'