Question

I have a facebook app that stores users birthday in mysql db as a varchar. Im trying to get all the users birthday that are

coming up in 1 week,
if it’s during the current week
and if the birthday was last week.

in my php i get the birthday and convert them with strtotime()

I can easily check if the birthday is today

if (date('m-d') == date('m-d', $bday)) {
    // today is your bday!!
}

Im lost when it comes to comparing dates aahaha I know I can use strtotime(‘nextweek’) or something like that, but im not sure

Answer 1

The query would be like :

select * from table 
where bday between curdate() - INTERVAL 7 DAY and curdate() + INTERVAL 7 DAY

for the range within past week and next week.