Question

I have a database called gameschedules and a table called dec1212. Inside of this table are the columns date (YYYY-MM-DD), division, field, time, team1, and team2 in that order.

I already have the data displaying on my page but I need to restrict it to only showing rows in my database that have a date that is equal to the current date. So if there are 10 rows and only 5 of them have today’s date in the date column, only those should show. Here is my current query code and I know it is wrong but if someone can help me correct it that would be great:

Current code:

//specifies that it is getting data from the table and limited num rows
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `dec1212` LIMIT 0, 10 ") or die(mysql_error());

This is what I tried to do to restrict data by date:

//set variable to current date with same format as date column
$myDate = date('Y-m-d');
//pull only rows that match the current date
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM 'dec1212' WHERE date = $myDate()") or die(mysql_error());

I know that my code is incorrect so this is why I am asking for help.

Answer 1

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `dec1212` WHERE `date` = CURDATE()") or die(mysql_error());