Question

I’m attempting to make a “this day in history” type of page using PHP and mySQL. In the mySQL database, I have the following columns for each entry: id, date, topic, event. The date column uses the mySQL date type which is YYYY-MM-DD. I’m trying to use the date function in PHP to call the corresponding mySQL entry with the same date, but I can’t figure out how to connect them.

This first section successfully returns everything from the database.

<?php

$config ['db'] = array (
'host'      =>  'localhost',
'username'  =>  'root',
'password'  =>  'root',
'dbname'    =>  'party'
);

$db = new PDO('mysql:host=' . $config['db']['host'] . ';dbname=' . $config['db']['dbname'] , $config['db']['username'] , $config['db']['password']);

$query = $db->query("SELECT `events`.`date`, `topic`, `event` FROM `events`");

$rows = $query->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

echo '<pre>', print_r($rows, true), '</pre>';

However, I don’t want to display everything, just the row that contains the same month and day as the current date. How would I properly loop through and display only the single row? Here is where I ended.

//current day and month
$current_date = date("m d");

//select from database of events where matching month and day     
$statement = $db->prepare("SELECT * FROM `events` WHERE `date` = :md ");

$statement->execute(array(':md' => $current_date));

//echo out events that happened throughout history
echo "On ", date('F jS'), ", the following events took place:";

while($rows = $statement->fetch()){

    echo $rows['topic'];
    echo $rows['event'];
}

The only thing it prints out is “On current date, the following events took place:” Also, while it’s not of upmost importance, my current date is printing out one day in the future.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I`d prefer to use mysql functions to extract month, day etc.

Query:

 SELECT * FROM events WHERE EXTRACT(MONTH FROM date) = MONTH(NOW())
 AND EXTRACT(DAY FROM date) = DAY(NOW())

Try to check mysql time zone settings and php zone settings to figure out why time one hour ahead.