Hi there everyone, I use the following to store the current date in my db: $date = date("mdY"); then to decrease the day by -1 I use the following: $date = date("Y"); $date2 = date("m"); $date3 = date("d")-1; $dateb = '$date$date2$date3'; Now what I need to do, is when a DB operation is run it checks the DB to see if there are any dates that match $dateb or less (Yesterday or before) and then delete those only, leaving todays in the DB, I tried the following with no success: mysql_query ("DELETE FROM orderstemp WHERE < '$dateb' "); This query works if I do a delete by id, but not how i'm doing it here, does anyone have any ideas? Be gentle with me, dates are newish to me :-) Thanks. Chris -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php