Question

i need to create a function that will display the articles of the current date only.
Here is what i have created:

function lastnews () {
    $id = mysql_real_escape_string ($id);
    $date = date('d');
    $sql = 'SELECT * FROM posts WHERE  post_status = "publish" AND post_date = "$date"  ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 3';
    $res = mysql_query($sql) or die (mysql_error());

if (mysql_num_rows($res) !=0):
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) {


    $title = $row['post_title'];
    echo '<li><a href="post.php?id='.$row['id'].'">'.$title.'</a></li>';    
}
    endif;

} // end 

But this is not working. the formt of date in database is :

Y-m-d H:i

Thank you for reading this

Answer 1

You need to specify the entire date (date('Y-m-d')) and the query should say AND post_date > '$date' because it includes a time. You can also say AND post_date > CURRENT_DATE.