all - fairly simple query question that's been hounding me: How do I query for entries with a date and time only greater than now, or when the query is run (page requested)?
I've seen some examples but they aren't good enough for me to modify. Here's my code:
$todaysDate = date("Y-m-d h:i:s");
$params = array('select'=>'*', 'limit'=>3, 'orderby'=>'t.event_StartDate ASC', 't.event_StartDate < "$todaysDate"' );
An example of the variable "t.event_StartDate" outputs "2010-12-10 22:18:42" so I assume that may be how it's saved in the database.
I suspect I'm not building the date correctly or I need to be using a time function I'm not familiar with in MySQL. Help? This is for outputting a series of events with date and time.
I think you reverse the use <, it should be >
try
SELECT ... WHERE t.event_StartDate>NOW();
/* you don't even need to set $todaysDate */
t.event_StartDate > NOW() don't will returns nothing? a date higher of now lol. I'm confused.
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I'm in a problem that i need an help because after research i have not found a solution.. I have to compare two date in PHP, the date of now with the date from Database.
Writing this:
strtotime(Date("d/m/Y H:i"))
Correct return the current timestamp.
But writing this:
strtotime($m['start_date'])
Work but response with a timestamp less than the current timestamp but the $m['start_date'] is from Database and it's like this: "2017-08-23 11:00:00"... It's not possible that the timestamp of 2017-08-23 11:00:00 it's less than the current timestamp!
And the weird part is that if i write this:
Date("d/m/Y H:i",strtotime($m['start_date']))
It response with the correct Date formatted with the string i passed to: 23/08/2017 11:00. How it possible? I have to compare the two timestamp but the output is that today come after tomorrow...
I have tested a lot of solution but not working at all. I have tried also to write this:
strtotime(Date("d/m/Y H:i",strtotime($m['start_date'])))
But not return nothing, 0.
I have also tried to put the second, but the result is the same.
I'm falling all for a stupid comparison from two date, help me!
After today i definitely hate work with Date
If you are trying to compare two timestamps from why don't just use the time() function and compare if it's less, greater or equal to the timestamp of the value received from the database by using strtotime($m['start_date']) for example
$db_time = strtotime($m['start_date']);
if ( time() > $db_time ) {
/**
** YOUR CODE
**/
}
I have the following at the top of every page so when the website is loaded by anyone PHP deletes any record in a specific database table that is older than 3 days.
$conn = getConnected("oversizeBoard");
mysqli_query($conn, "DELETE FROM postedLoads WHERE date < DATE_SUB(DATE('m-d-Y'), INTERVAL 3 DAY");
The problem is nothing is being deleted.
The data type for my date column is varchar(20) and when I insert a date into MySQL it is entered using date("m-d-Y"). The name of my date field is date. So it appears that the above query would be correct, but I have done something wrong, and I am not certain as to what since every example I've looked at has basically looked the same except they used now() instead of date() but I use a specific date format so I can't use now() in my query.
What have I done wrong?
I even tried putting it into a function:
function deleteOversizeRows() {
$conn = getConnected("oversizeBoard");
mysqli_query($conn, "DELETE FROM postedLoads WHERE date < DATE_SUB(DATE('m-d-Y'), INTERVAL 3 DAY");
}
deleteOversizeRows();
Try to provide date by calculating first and then use it in query like below
$date = date("m-d-Y", strtotime('-3 day'));
$conn = getConnected("oversizeBoard");
mysqli_query($conn, "DELETE FROM postedLoads WHERE date < '".$date."');
It might help you. If need any other solution or help, do ask here.
Use MySQL function TIMESTAMPDIFF(unit,datetime_expr1,datetime_expr2);
Function calculates difference between two dates and returns output based on the unit parameter passed .
Try this:
DELETE FROM postedLoads WHERE TIMESTAMPDIFF('DAY',date,now())<3;
For detailed info of function:http://www.w3resource.com/mysql/date-and-time-functions/mysql-timestampdiff-function.php
MySQL table "flightSched" is connected to time, similar to the one below:
flightNo |day |time |arrivalTimeSec
=============================================
WERE112 |Tuesday | 1:00 |1381186800
FGHG234 |Tuesday |23:00 |1381266000
CGHF345 |Tuesday |00:00 |1381183200
I have a mysql query that select all data between two times. This is the query:
$CurrentTimeMinus30min = date('H:i', strtotime('-30 minutes')); //Current Time minus 30minutes
$CurrentTimeMinus30min = strtotime($CurrentTimeMinus30min);
$CurrentTimePlus4Hours = date('H:i', strtotime('+240 minutes')); //Current Time plus 4 hours
$CurrentTimePlus4Hours = strtotime($CurrentTimePlus4Hours);
$query = $mysqli->query("
SELECT * FROM flightSched
WHERE day = '$currentDay'
AND arrivalTimeSec
BETWEEN '$CurrentTimeMinus30min'
AND '$CurrentTimePlus4Hours'
");
I was advised to used strtotime() function on the time values to be able to use them in a BETWEEN MySQL query. This doesn't seem to be working at all.
Where am I going wrong with this query? Any help will be appreciated.
today I found the same problem with yours (mine about coordinates).
and I found out that in some case, a BETWEEN operator can only be used like this
..... WHERE columname BETWEEN smallervalue AND biggervalue
previously I've tried with the biggervalue at front since I dealt with negative numbers, and it fails.
you might found the same problem with your timestamp.
strtotime returns a timestamp so passing that into the MySQL query, like above, won't work. Try using FROM_UNIXTIME instead.
$query = $mysqli->query("SELECT * FROM flightSched
WHERE day = '$currentDay'
AND FROM_UNIXTIME(arrivalTimeSec) BETWEEN FROM_UNIXTIME($CurrentTimeMinus30min) AND FROM_UNIXTIME($CurrentTimePlus4Hours) " );
EDIT - I hadn't noticed that arrivalTimeSec was also a timestamp. The above mightn't be a workable answer for you, but try it. If it doesn't work, as others say, define what you mean by
This doesn't seem to be working at all.
Is it not returning any rows? Is it returning an error? Can you print out $CurrentTimeMinus30min and $CurrentTimePlus4Hours? Narrow down the potential areas for problems.
Have you tried to encapsulate the between? This could potentially solve your problem:
SELECT * FROM flightSched
WHERE day = '$currentDay'
AND (arrivalTimeSec BETWEEN '$CurrentTimeMinus30min' AND '$CurrentTimePlus4Hours')
Also why not just do:
$CurrentTimeMinus30min = strtotime('-30 minutes');
Or
$CurrentTimeMinus30min = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:00', strtotime('-30 minutes')));
Please send us some examples of what your variables are generating.
Your time calculation with date("H:i",...) and strtotime(..) seems to actually produce the correct results, although there is a much easier way to add/substract n minutes from the current time:
$now = time();
$currentTimeMinus30min = $now - 30*60; // 30 minutes * 60 seconds
$currentTimePlus4Hours = $now + 4*60*60; // 4 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds
(I assume your time entries in your database are unix timestamps.)
Your query looks fine, too, but there are a few things to keep in mind:
You have redundant fields in your database (day and time can be calculated from the timestamp)
Working with time variables can easily lead to confusion, as the time passes on and if you have no entries in your database that match the specified time range (-30m to +240m) the result set is empty. So to test the query update the database with current time stamps.
I would suggest the following:
Drop the redundant columns day and time and just use the timestamp as base for your calculations, because the day and time is already included in the timestamp. So just use a simple query like
select * from flightShed
where arrivalTime between $begin and $end
have a database with data and time
example: 2013-06-04 08:20:00
need to convert that to
example: 1378478351000
so i can add that number to jquery script event calendar
when i use this php code
$exc_date = $row_Recordset1['exc_date'];
$exc_date = microtime(true) *1000 ;
echo $exc_date;
it works right but it shows me the current date and time not the date and time saved at database,
can somone please help , thanks
If you want to avoid the calculations in PHP, add a computed column using unix_timestamp and str_to_date to your query:
select (
unix_timestamp(str_to_date(TimeStrColumnName, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s')) * 1000)
as utime,
# ... the rest of your query as before
if the MySQL column is already a date/time field (instead of a string), this will do it:
select (unix_timestamp(TimeStampColumnName) * 1000) as utime,
# ... the rest of your query as before
Of course it does, as you overwrite the database values in the second line by putting microtime instead in it.
You will not be able to get the microtime, when you just have the format of date in the database - so you should use 0. microtime is returning the value of the actual microtime at the moment.
You should do something like that to get time + microtime:
$exec_date = strtotime($row_Recordset1[exec_date"]) . "000";
More information here. The problem with this is, that you will get it as a string, so you will need to convert it to an integer:
$exec_date = (int) $exec_date;
Hope it helps you.
How would i go about checking to see if an auction has expired in my database? I have a datetime column in MySQL that i believe is of the following format: YYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss. If this is the case would the following check work - i.e. want to select only expired auctions from the table in the database...
<?php
//Some code
$auctioncheck = mysql_query("
SELECT * FROM auction WHERE ($date_time > finish_time)
");
?>
While "finish time" is a column in the database of the above cited format. Presuming this works how actually do i get the current date into the same format? If anybody knows i would very grateful cheers. Even more so if the above query wouldn't work and something else is required. Thanks again.
Oh and of course i would define the date_time variable to start with
Do you actually need the $date_time variable? The easiest way to do this would be SELECT * FROM auction WHERE finish_time < NOW(). That way you'll get your results and don't have to set the date from PHP.
You can use
<?php
//Some code
$date_time=strtotime($date_time);
$auctioncheck = mysql_query("
SELECT * FROM auction WHERE ( $date_time > UNIX_TIMESTAMP(finish_time))
");
?>
This solution:
// to show both date and time,
$date->get('YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss');
// or, to show date only
$date->get('YYYY-MM-dd')
is from this post: PHP Zend date format
and here's another solution: how to format a Date in MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss format in javascript?
and to do it in php:
How to get the current date and time in PHP?
The function date is made for it:
// Get the current date
$date_time = date("y-m-d H:i:s");
Look at the documentation page to see other format flags ;)