Question

What I’m trying to do is display articles from the past 30 days, but the code I have in place keeps giving me a mysql_fetch_assoc error which then traces back to my query

This is the code:

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * 
                      FROM table 
                     WHERE DATE (datetime) = (CURDATE() - INTERVAL 7 DAY) 
                  ORDER BY ID DESC");

while ($runrows = mysql_fetch_array($sql))

Can someone give me pointers on how to actually make the code work properly? Here is the error

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource

Answer 1

Try this:

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE DATE (datetime) > DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 7 DAY) ORDER BY ID DESC");

I’ve changed two things:

1. Using DATE_SUB() to subtract date.
2. Using >= instead of just = to find all dates in the past week.