On 7/28/09 8:35 AM, "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: $pastDays = strtotime("-30 days"); $date = date("d/m/y", $pastDays); Well I tried and got no results from my query and I know there results with date ranges in the last 30 days, I basically need to count backward from now() 30 days I thought strtotime() would work well..but the fields in the db are varchar not date fields they are all formatted the same though 00/00/00: $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT restaurants.ID, name, address, inDate FROM restaurants, inspections WHERE restaurants.name != '' AND inspections.inDate <= $date GROUP BY restaurants.ID ORDER BY 'name' "; -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php