On 7/28/09 8:52 AM, "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 06:46 -0700, Miller, Terion wrote:
On 7/28/09 8:44 AM, "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 09:42 -0400, Miller, Terion wrote:
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> On 7/28/09 8:35 AM, "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> $pastDays = strtotime("-30 days");
> $date = date("d/m/y", $pastDays);
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> 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:
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> $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' ";
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I believe the query is suspect. From memory, don't you need to enclose
dates in single quotes in MySQL statements? Also, I believe it uses
American data format, so you might have to put the month before the day
like was in Richards example.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Ah ha bet that's it didn't notice the euro/brit date formatting there. Lol thanks guys!
Euro/Brit date formatting? Nah, it's proper data formatting, not what you crazy Yanks do! ;)
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
LOL I know we yanks bastardize everything...anyways it still didn't work...argh...so the boss thought he'd give me something harder...lovely, now I have to figure out how to reverse publish things to quark....get ready guys I may be blowing the list up soon with questions (like I don't already)
Terion
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