Query from the last 7 days

[Leovenous]

I would think this is both a common and easy question, but 2 hours of digging have not yielded any results yet, so here goes.

All I want, is a simple query to get data from a table that has been modified in the last 7 days.

I have a field called 'modified' that has a time stamp 0000-00-00 00-00-00. It seems to me I want a way to check the timestamps and grab which ones are less than 7 days old.

So the query might look something like:

[code]SELECT * FROM players WHERE modified  > (SUBDATE(CURDATE(), INTERVAL '7' DAY)[/code]

But obviously I'm bumping around in the dark.

Any help?

[Barand]

one way

[code]<?php
$date_7 = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-7 days'));

$sql = "SELECT .... WHERE modified >= '$date_7' ";
?>[/code]

[fenway]

[code]SELECT * FROM players WHERE modified >= NOW() - INTERVAL 7 DAY[/code]

[Barand]

Shouldn't that be NOW() or CURDATE()

[fenway]

Yup, sorry, my bad.

[Leovenous]

Yep. That worked, and it makes sense. I wonder why I have not been able to find examples of queries even similar. (shrugs)

Thanks a bunch guys. Here's the final query:

[code]$query = "SELECT * FROM players WHERE Creator_ID LIKE '$id' AND modified >= CURDATE( ) - INTERVAL 7 DAY";[/code]

[fenway]

Personally, I'd use NOW(), not CURDATE(), in case you ever change your modified field to be of type DATETIME, not DATE.  FYI, make sure to always use the field name as the lvalue, so that an index can be used, if available.