Question

I’m trying to write a query in Doctrine that will return records added within a certain numbr of days, I have this line in my query but doesn’t work as expected:

$q->andWhere('g.date_added >= ?', array(strtotime('-'.$recent_interval.' day')));

date_added is a mySQL timestamp.

recent_interval is number of days.

I am using Doctrine-1.2.4 with Zend Framework 1.11.7

Appreciate the help.

Answer 1

The format of a MySQL timestamp is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. You’re comparing it with a UNIX timestamp which is a number returned from strtotime().

You need to convert the UNIX timestamp into a MySQL timestamp first to make it work.

To format a UNIX timestamp, you can make use of the PHP date() function. The format is Y-m-d H:i:s.

Example:

$compare = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('-'.$recent_interval.' day'));
$q->andWhere('g.date_added >= ?', array($compare));