Question

I’m making a website/database solution with database viewing/querying rights for the administrator.

I would like to give the user the option to insert two dates, with the page then producing all orders within the selected period.

I’m aware of how to retrieve variables from a form, it’s the back end stuff I’m unsure about and applying the dates to the records.

Answer 1

An example to maybe get you going in the right direction:

$results = mysql_query(
    sprintf("
        SELECT [your fields]
        FROM [your table]
        WHERE [date field] > '%s'
        AND [date field] < '%s'",
        mysql_real_escape_string($enteredStartDate),
        mysql_real_escape_string($enteredEndDate)
    )
);

Edit:

Dates should be in the format “YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS”.

Example fetch / display:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) {
    echo $row['fieldName'];
}

You of course need to be connected to a DB for any of this to work, see PHP Manual mysql_connect

If you are still having problems I think you need to do some reading on using PHP / MySQL, a simple Google search gives a whole stack of possible reading material.