Question

My Goal is to spit out the data in my fields based on a date via a query. My table consists of 9 Fields, one of them being DATE.

DATE      5STAR   4STAR   3STAR   2STAR   1STAR   TOTAL
2/9/2012    94       30     7       4       10     145
2/11/2012   95       31     7       4       10     147
2/12/2012   95       31     8       4       10     148

Here’s the kicker. If there is NO DATE such as “2/10/2012” I want to spit out the data in php that is based off the most recent date, so I would spit out data for “2/9/2012” if they selected “2/10/2012”.

Any suggestions for a query or do I have to upload all these dates to my database?

Answer 1

SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE date <= "2012-02-10" ORDER BY date desc LIMIT 1

make sure your DATE column is a date field. And you’re good to go!

Replace 2/10/2012 with whatever user inputs in PHP.