Question

This question is more like searching for best solution. I know how to do it in my way. 😀

I have few time-intervals as words:

• today,
• tomorrow,
• this_week,
• this_month;

The problem is that time is saved in the database as UNIX time-stamp.

I will try to show an example. Lets say it’s today. That means that I need to select results from database that has been made from start til end of this day.

This means that I need to get current day’s first second:

mktime(0, 0, 0);

…last second:

mktime(23, 59, 59);

And query the database with something like this:

WHERE `timestamp` >= first_second OR WHERE `timestamp` <= last_sencond

And yea, I need to write this for all possible strings that are allowed. Are there any neater solution?

Thanks in an advice! 🙂

Answer 1

For today you could use:

WHERE CAST(FROM_UNIXTIME(timestamp) AS DATE) = CURDATE()

For tomorrow:

WHERE CAST(FROM_UNIXTIME(timestamp) AS DATE) = DATE_ADD(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 DAY)

For this month:

WHERE MONTH(CAST(FROM_UNIXTIME(timestamp) AS DATE)) = MONTH(CURDATE())