Display only future database records with MySQL - php

Question

I am trying to display only records two weeks in advance from the current date onwards. starttime is stored as a datetime data type in the database.
I have this,
SELECT id, date_format(starttime, '%d-%m-%Y %H:%i') AS formatted_start, date_format(starttime, '%Y-%m-%d') AS formatted_date,
date_format(endtime, ' %H:%i') AS formatted_end
FROM timedates WHERE user_id = 1 AND `status`='' AND YEARWEEK(formatted_date, 0) IN (YEARWEEK(NOW(), 0),
YEARWEEK(DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 2 WEEK), 0))
But I am getting a syntax error YEARWEEK(formatted_date, 0) IN (YEARWEEK(NOW(), 0) AND YEARWEEK(DATE_ADD(NOW()
Could anyone tell me what's wrong with it?

Answer 1

It seems MySQL does not support calculated column in the where clause:
try
SELECT id, date_format(starttime, '%d-%m-%Y %H:%i') AS formatted_start,
date_format(starttime, '%Y-%m-%d') AS formatted_date,
date_format(endtime, ' %H:%i') AS formatted_end
FROM timedates
WHERE user_id = 1 AND `status`='' AND
YEARWEEK(starttime, 0) IN (
YEARWEEK(DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 WEEK), 0),
YEARWEEK(DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 2 WEEK), 0))
use starttime instead of formatted_date

Answer 2

As I said, I see no reason to use YEARWEEK function. You need start date set to today which is CURDATE() and plus 2 weeks period which is DATE_ADD(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 2 WEEK) and then we just check if starttime between those 2 dates.
SELECT id, date_format(starttime, '%d-%m-%Y %H:%i') AS formatted_start,
date_format(starttime, '%Y-%m-%d') AS formatted_date,
date_format(endtime, ' %H:%i') AS formatted_end
FROM timedates
WHERE user_id = 1
AND `status`=''
AND DATE(starttime) BETWEEN CURDATE() AND DATE_ADD(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 2 WEEK)

Answer 3

How do you define "two weeks in advance"? Our normal inclination, is to think "within two weeks", which would be to simply before 14 days from now.
WHERE starttime >= NOW()
AND starttime < NOW() + INTERVAL 14 DAY
But the original query is using YEARWEEK function, and the behavior with that is a bit different.
If today is Thursday, May 21, 1015. What is the range of dates that starttime should fall into?
For datetimes right now or in the future, we can just do:
WHERE starttime >= NOW()
(We can do just a > rather than >= if we want to exclude startime values that are an exact match for NOW().
The question is, the bit about "two weeks in advance". Adding 14 days, or 2 weeks, would get us up to Thursday, June 4, 2015. It looks like you might also want to include Friday and Saturday, June 5th and 6th. (Up until Sunday, June th.)
We can use an expression to return "Sunday on or following 14 days from today"
If it's a Sunday, we just use that date. (For convenience, we think of that as adding 0 days). If it's Saturday, we need to add 1 day. If it's a Friday, add 2 days, ... Monday, add 6 days.
Conveniently, the expression 6 - WEEKDAY(NOW()) gives us the number of days we need to add to today's date to get to the next Sunday.
Reference: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_weekday
We probably want to lop the time off at midnight, we can use the DATE() function to do that.
-- startime values on or after now and before midnight
-- of the first sunday on or after the date two weeks from now
WHERE starttime >= NOW()
AND starttime < DATE(NOW()) + INTERVAL 14+6-WEEKDAY(NOW()) DAY
It's much easier to read and understand what the query is doing when we reference bare columns from the table on one side, and do the gyration and manipulation on the other side. It's also easier to test. And, maybe more importantly, it allows MySQL to make effective use of an "range scan" operation on a suitable index, rather than having to evaluate a function on every row in the table.
If today is '2015-05-21', and what you meant by "two weeks in advance" was up until the second Sunday from now (Sunday, May 31, 2015... 1 week and 3 days from now) just replace the 14 with 7.
Again, it really depends on how you define "two weeks in advance", how you determine what that ending date boundary is. Once you can define that, you can write an expression that returns the value, and just compare to value stored in the starttime column.