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Hey guys.

 

I am trying to allow users to search between certain dates.  I have a from date, which has 3 drop down boxes (Month, Date, Year) and a to date, which has 3 drop down boxes.

 

In my test DB, I have a t_date which captures a date such as 6/8/2009.  I also have a t_mon, t_day, t_year just in case I needed to separate for the search.

 

Currently, I have this:

 

$result = mysql_query

("SELECT * FROM tickets WHERE t_company = '".$_SESSION['company']."' AND t_month BETWEEN '".$from_mon."' AND '".$to_mon."' AND t_day BETWEEN '".$from_day."' AND '".$to_day."' AND t_year BETWEEN '".$from_year."' AND '".$to_year."'");

 

or

 

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tickets WHERE t_company = '".$_SESSION['company']."' AND t_date BETWEEN '".$from_date."' AND '".$to_date."'");

 

Neither is working properly.  I've stared for an hour and know its wrong, but can think of a way to make it work perfectly.

 

Thanks in advance.

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mysql does not use / in their dates they use YEAR-MONTH-DAY format for their dates, make sure your dates match that format and then you can simply do

 

"SELECT * FROM tickets WHERE t_company = '{$_SESSION['company']} AND UNIX_TIMESTAMP(t_date) BETWEEN UNIX_TIMESTAMP('{$from_date}') AND UNIX_TIMESTAMP('{$to_date}')"

 

or beforehand you could just make the timestamps prior to the query, but either way the above should work if they're in YEAR-MONTH-DAY format

Thanks for the reply.

 

Do I need to convert the drop downs from a string to somthing else?  because of the following

 

$from_mon = $_POST['from_mon_box'];

$from_day = $_POST['from_day_box'];

$from_year = $_POST['from_year_box'];

 

$to_mon = $_POST['to_mon_box'];

$to_day = $_POST['to_day_box'];

$to_year = $_POST['to_year_box'];

 

$to_date = $to_mon . '-' . $to_day . '-' . $to_year;

$from_date = $from_mon . '-' . $from_day . '-' . $from_year;

 

I am not getting any results so far

 

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