jacko_162 Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Im trying to create an IF statement for the following data from database; if $record['logoffDateTime'] is older or equal to 60 days old, echo TRUE else echo FALSE. this is my code snippets im working from; <?php // Define and perform the SQL query $results = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM membertracking ORDER BY name ASC'); $results_array = array(); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) { $results_array[$row['characterID']] = $row; } foreach ($results_array as $id => $record) { $tempdate = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")-60,date("Y")); $tempdate = date("Y-m-d", $tempdate); $datecheck = $record['logoffDateTime']; if ($datecheck <= '$tempdate') { echo "TRUE"; } else { echo "FALSE"; }; ?> ?></td> <td><?php echo $record['name'];?></td> <td><?php echo $record['startDateTime'];?></td> <td><?php echo $record['logoffDateTime'];?></td> <td><?php echo $record['location'];?></td> </tr> <?php } ?> for some reason its returning "TRUE" for all my results, even though some of the "$record['logoffDateTime']" is older than 60 days.. what have i done wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 '$tempdate' is a literal string, reading $tempdate. Not the variable contained within $tempdate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko_162 Posted February 13, 2013 Author Share Posted February 13, 2013 sorry im a noob php dev. i remove the ' and all i get is FASLE returns. i stored date in db as DateTime : 2012-03-16 23:41:00 does this make a difference to my calcs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko_162 Posted February 13, 2013 Author Share Posted February 13, 2013 now im using; $days = 60; if(date('Y-m-d', strtotime("{$record['logoffDateTime']} +{$days}day")) < date('Y-m-d')) and i am getting somewhere.. thx for help ;p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 SELECT IF( (DATEDIFF(logoffDateTime, CURDATE()) > 60), 1, 0 ) AS columnalias, membertracking.* -- You should list specific fields, not * FROM membertracking ORDER BY name ASC Not tested. Run that query and do a print_r on the resulting row. (I may have the 1 and 0 backward, not sure exactly what you're going for.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicken Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 I generally find when doing something like this, rather than trying to subtract two dates, it's easier/better to subtract 60 days from 'now' and then compare to the db records. Eg: SELECT CASE WHEN (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP-INTERVAL 60 DAY) < logoffDateTime THEN 1 ELSE 0 END as isOlderThan60Days, ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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