Re: Making several variables into 1 variable

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 06:46 -0700, Miller, Terion wrote: > > > On 7/28/09 8:44 AM, "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 09:42 -0400, Miller, Terion wrote: > > > > > > On 7/28/09 8:35 AM, "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> 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' "; > > > > 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