PHP MySql query shows current time instead of the time from tablet - php

Question

I have a PHP query to display the time an order was inserted on the database but all I'm getting in return is the current time not what I have on the database table.
public function count_todayorder(){
$today_date = date("m-d-Y");
$query="SELECT * FROM set_order_detail WHERE order_placed_date LIKE '%$today_date%'";
$con=Utility::DB_Connection();
mysqli_set_charset($con,'utf8');
$result=mysqli_query($con,$query);
$count=mysqli_num_rows($result);
return $count;
}
To display the table I'm using this.
<div>
<b>Ordered date:</b>
<?php date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
echo $today_date = date('g:i:s A - m-d-y ');
?>
</div>

Answer 1

It seems you are not actually using the date from the database, but rather you are just using the date function without setting the timestamp.
This is the date() functions syntax: date(format,timestamp);
So using your code, it would be:
date('g:i:s A - m-d-y ', $dateFromDB);
You just need to get the date from the database, and add it to the date() function where $dateFromDB is.

Answer 2

Try to change this date formate
Database date formate is yyyy-mm-dd.
So you should change your current date formate like below:
$today_date = date("Y-m-d");
$query='SELECT * FROM set_order_detail WHERE order_placed_date LIKE "%'.$today_date.'%"';

Answer 3

To tackle the problem you need to firstly understand that you have 2 different servers. One for the PHP and one for the database-in your case MySQL. Latter server will store records based on the time_zone stored variable. By default that should be set to SYSTEM -if you haven't tempered with the settings.
To check that perform the following query SELECT ##time_zone;. In case that it is something like +00:00 it is equal to GMT. Alternatively try SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'time_zone';
Thus, for integrity purposes, you should always rely on what your SQL server provides. Lets amend the select statement to;
$query="SELECT * FROM `set_order_detail` WHERE DATE( `order_placed_date` ) = DATE( NOW( ) )";
...and remove the $today_date = date("m-d-Y"); part which, is not needed at all.
I assume that order_placed_date is either DATETIME or TIMESTAMP since you haven't placed a data-set example.
Given query will return the date format which by default is 'YYYY-MM-DD'. Casting this into PHP via date function will re-evaluate it based on the PHP server clock, which is a non-go. To get the proper format you need something like this
SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT( `order_placed_date`, '%l:%i:%s %p - %c-%e-%y') AS `format` FROM `set_order_detail` WHERE DATE( `order_placed_date` ) = DATE( NOW( ) );
Please check MySQL DATE_FORMAT function for more details.
To continue, your function -like #Barmar wrote in a comment- returns the number of rows matched and not the content fetched via the query. Therefore, the function should look something like that.
// somewhere in your class add this
public function todayOrders( )
{
$query="SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT( `order_placed_date`, '%l:%i:%s %p - %c-%e-%y') AS `format` FROM `set_order_detail` WHERE DATE( `order_placed_date` ) = DATE( NOW( ) );";
$con=Utility::DB_Connection();
mysqli_set_charset($con,'utf8');
$result=mysqli_query($con,$query);
if( !is_resource( $result ) )
{
return [];
}
$rows = [];
while( $row = mysqli_fetch_row( $result ) )
{
$rows[ ] = $row['format'];
}
return $rows;
}
Note: do not replace your previous method, just append this one, in case there are errors on this method. I am not able to test it atm.
To conclude and to produce the set of results fetched via the db in your template try the following.
<?php $rows = todayOrders( ); ?>
<?php foreach( $rows as $today_date ) : ?>
<div>
<b>Ordered date:</b> <?php echo $today_date; ?>
</div>
Hope it helped.