MYSQL Date range query not working correctly - php

Question

I have a problem getting certain data from my database by querying a date range. In my database i have a DATE type field within the format YYYY-MM-DD. I want to get all data within a date range of today + 2 weeks (Expiring).
I have wrote:
$format = 'Y-m-j';
$date = date ( $format );
$new = date ( $format, strtotime ( '+14 day' . $date ) );
$start = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($new));
$today = date('Y-m-d');
$q = "SELECT * FROM listing WHERE dd_end BETWEEN '".$today."' AND '".$start."'";
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($q)){
$listing_id = $row['listing_id'];
echo "$listing_id";
}
So what I want to achieve is for the query to pull all the rows from now until 5th October. I've echo'd the variables and they show they're in the correct form (YYYY-MM-DD) to compare within the database but no results are returning.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in return.

Answer 1

Well, assuming that the mysql database has the same date that your server, you could let the mysql database do all the date calculations.
A little something like this:
SELECT *
FROM listing
WHERE dd_end BETWEEN CURDATE() AND (CURDATE() + INTERVAL 14 DAY)
On the other hand, i think Paul S's answer may fix your problem.
Edit:
You forgot to call mysql_query before the mysql_fetch_assoc() function.
$result = mysql_query($q);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$listing_id = $row['listing_id'];
echo "$listing_id";
}

Answer 2

If dd_end is a date you may want to read a certain section on the MySQL docs: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/comparison-operators.html#operator_between
For best results when using BETWEEN with date or time values, use
CAST() to explicitly convert the values to the desired data type.
Examples: If you compare a DATETIME to two DATE values, convert the
DATE values to DATETIME values. If you use a string constant such as
'2001-1-1' in a comparison to a DATE, cast the string to a DATE.

Answer 3

May this is the right way ?
$start = date("Y-m-d", strtotime('+14 day' . $date));

Answer 4

Read:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
strtotime has a second argument.
$format = 'Y-m-j';
$date = date ( $format );
$new = date ( $format, strtotime ( '+14 day' . $date ) );
$start = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($new));
Should be:
$new = strtotime('+14 day', time());
$start = date("Y-m-d", $new);
$today = date('Y-m-d');
$q = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM listing WHERE dd_end BETWEEN '".$today."' AND '".$start."'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($q)){
$listing_id = $row['listing_id'];
echo "$listing_id";
}