from date to date - search and display - php

Question

I have a database holding two bits of information. from date to date. I need this entry to appear in my calender on every day, but I can only manage to get to appear on the first and last date.
example of DB:
job_no | date1(from)| date2(to)
________________________________
1 |2013-01-28 | 2013-02-03
2 |2013-01-14 | 2013-01-18
Edit for question. the search bar I have allows for ONE date input and the the calender finds entries through date1 and the next 6 days.
I cannot have a search which contains two date inputs because my users are so used to this way and i do not want to increase searching time. I started to think that I had to find the dates between the dates, add that to an array then use an if statement to find matches...but even saying this makes no sense to me.
regarding job 1, I need my calender to show this job up on all dates 28/29/30/31/01/02/03.
My current search SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE date1='$searchinput' PER day and calender this search. I use strtotime to increase the input date by +1 to add to the search for each day.
Calender page.
What I want with my results. User searched Date 28th.
Mon 28 | Tues 29 | Wed 30 ...... | Fri 03 |
_________________________________________________________________________
Job no 1 | job no 1 | job no 1 ...... | job no 1
What I have now.
Mon 28 | Tues 29 | Wed 30 ...... | Fri 03 |
_________________________________________________________________________
Job no 1 | blank | blank | job no 1
each day has a new select query right now. It matches days with date 1 and date 2. I dont need this as before I only had jobs out on one day now they go out for more than one day and need the job to be noted on all days it is out by only using a job from date and job to date.
EDIT 2:
SELECT * FROM calender_db NATURAL JOIN job_db
WHERE section='two'
AND date1 < '$day' AND date2 > '$day'
OR date1 = '$day' OR date2 = '$day'
This query selects what I need, but as I am using OR the first WHERE CLAUSE can be null. I need that to always be in the clause. I have been looking at using IIF or CASE to rectify but do not how to implement 100%...?

Answer 1

why not use BETWEEN
SELECT * FROM tableName WHERE date BETWEEN 'date1' AND 'date2'
SQLFiddle Demo
UPDATE 1
SELECT *
FROM tableName
WHERE date BETWEEN '2013-01-28' AND '2013-01-28' + INTERVAL 6 DAY
SQLFiddle Demo

Answer 2

To generate a list of days between two dates:
$days = array();
$stop = strtotime($date2);
for ($current = strtotime($date1); $current <= $stop; $current = strtotime('+1 days', $current)) {
$days[] = date('d', $current);
}
echo join('/', $days);
Demo
Update
Misunderstood the question it seems, if both dates are stored as columns and you're querying with a single date:
SELECT *
FROM jobs
WHERE 'date_from_input' BETWEEN date1 AND date2
Update 2
Your latest query can be written as:
SELECT *
FROM calender_db NATURAL JOIN job_db
WHERE section='two' AND '$day' BETWEEN date1 AND date2

Answer 3

Try like this
SELECT * FROM Mytimetable WHERE date BETWEEN 'date1' AND 'date2'

Answer 4

Query between date1 - date2
SELECT *
FROM `objects`
WHERE (date_field BETWEEN '2013-01-30 14:15:55' AND '2013-02-19 10:15:55')
OR
SELECT *
FROM `objects`
WHERE (date_field BETWEEN date1 AND date2)

Answer 5

query to select dates between two dates with PHP variables.
i will explain with exapmle :
$date1 = "2013-02-19";
$date2 = "2013-02-25";
then sql query will be :
$query = " SELECT * FROM table_xyz where (date_item BETWEEN date('".$date1."') AND date('".$date2."')";
hope it solves your problem

Answer 6

SELECT
*
FROM
tablename
WHERE
date between '$date1' and '$date2'
order by
date