On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 06:46 -0700, Miller, Terion wrote:

> 
> 
> On 7/28/09 8:44 AM, "Ashley Sheridan" <a...@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" <a...@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

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