Question

I’ve got a piece of code here, but I’m not sure if it works 100%. So I thought I could ask you, Google didn’t gave me a straight answer so I hope you can. What I want to do is to show a DIV if the current date is before the date which has been given in the database. If the date is in the past then my DIV shouldn’t be shown.

PHP/SQL:

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `tournaments` WHERE `deadline` > CURDATE()");

Is this the correct code for what I’m looking for?

Thanks for your time!

Answer 1

might want to add the equal as it would not display div’s with today as a deadline

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `tournaments` WHERE `deadline` >= CURDATE()");

otherwise that seems fine. you would build the logic:

<?PHP
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
if (mysql_num_rows($result) == 0) {
    // nothing to show
    echo "<div>No results</div>\n";
} else {
    // found data to display
    while ($Row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
        ?>
        <div style='float:left;width: 150px;'>Data Title</div>\n";
        <div style='float:left; margin-left: 15px;'><?PHP echo $Row['yourdatafield']; ?></div>;
        <div style="clear:both;"></div>
        <?PHP
    }
}
?>