Question

I have a database which i created via PHPmyadmin. And I have problem with the time columns/calculation.

table name = course

..course_name | section_ID | Dr_ID | time_start | time_end | location 
...................................| 10:00:00 | 10:20:00 < //i but the
                                                        value like this 

And the type of (| time_start | time_end |) = Time < //like this in PHPmyadmin

And my query doesn’t work. I guess the problem is .time(). in the query:

$query2 = "SELECT location FROM sections where Dr_ID = 1
           AND time_start <= ".time()." and time_end > ".time();   

Answer 1

The time() function returns a unix timestamp, you *time_start* field seems to be a mysql TIME type you need to convert one of them to be able to make a proper comparison.

You can use date("H:i:s",time()) instead of time(), which might get you what you want

Or you need to convert your *time_start* *time_end* fields to unix timestamp UNIX_TIMESTAMP() – you will need to concatenate the date in front of your *time_start*.