Question

I got a mysql table with columns from_date and to_date.

I also got a second timespan in PHP consisting of $monday and $friday.

Now I want to select all entries from my table which’s timespan includes atleast one day inbetween $monday and $friday.

I first thought about something like this:

WHERE `from_date` >= :monday
AND `to_date` <= :friday

But this would not include entries where from_date is smaller then :monday or to_date is greater then :friday

Answer 1

I think you want to select records which start before the end of your range and end after the start of it:

WHERE from_date <= :friday AND to_date >= :monday