Question

I’m trying to select a list of events from a database with MySQL. I’m fairly new to php but usually I can figure stuff out. cant seam to get this to work though..

function get_events_within_dates($da,$dd) {
    global $connection;
    $query = "SELECT * 
        FROM events
        WHERE date 
        BETWEEN STR_TO_DATE('$da','Y-m-d') AND STR_TO_DATE('$dd','Y-m-d')            
        ORDER BY date ASC";

I’ve used $da and $dd as date of arrival and date of departure..

I can get it to work fine when I replace the variables with exact dates, tried messing around with STR_TO_DATE() and that didn’t help either. Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

You are missing % in the format string. Use STR_TO_DATE() as:

   STR_TO_DATE('$da','%Y-%m-%d')

Full query as below:

   $query = "SELECT * 
             FROM events
             WHERE date BETWEEN STR_TO_DATE('$da','%Y-%m-%d') 
                        AND STR_TO_DATE('$dd','%Y-%m-%d')            
             ORDER BY date ASC";