Question

I want to allow my users to search the database for a row that was submitted on a certain day. The date is entered into the field in the database using the date() function which is great, but when i use the php strtotime function, of course the dates are not exactly the same.

Is there some clever mysql function that can help me with this?

Answer 1

I had an issue with this before.

You’re best to generate a start and end date then use the BETWEEN function instead.

So something like this:

$start_date = "2009-01-01 00:00:00";
$end_date = "2009-01-01 23:59:59";

$sql = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE date BETWEEN '$start_date' AND '$end_date' AND id = 'x';

Of course you would just pull your dates from the DB using strtotime and append the time stamps – depends how you used date()

Hope this helps 🙂