Question

I have two fields in the DB stating the start-time and end-time, and another field that may or may be not set that is called ‘date’.

Upon SELECT, I need to know if I am in or out of the time range, and if the date is set if I am in the time range only if the date is today.

What is the best way to do that in PHP ?

Thanks!

Answer 1

My original answer was not answering your question at all I realised. Hopefully this will.

$query = "SELECT IF(".date('H-m-s')." BETWEEN start-time AND end-time, 
'inRange', 'notInRange') WHERE `date` == CURRENT_DATE OR `date` IS NULL";

If date(‘H-m-s’) from PHP is in the range it will return the string “inRange” otherwise it will return the string “notInRange” and will match it on the records in your db where date is either NULL, or the current date.

You could also make the SQL statement like this:

SELECT IF(TIME(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) BETWEEN start-time AND end-time, 'inRange',
'notInRange') WHERE myDate == CURRENT_DATE OR myDate IS NULL;