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Selecting all inactive users


dean7

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Hey guys, just a quick question, I'm wanting to select all the inactive users from the database who have been inactive for like 2 years, 3 years, 4 years etc from their last login but how would I go by doing this?

 

I mean I'm guessing you would get all the users which are < the date posted but I'm unsure how I can get the results to what I'm after?

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks!

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I didn't explain it very well. Let me try again,

 

I'm coding a page to show users who haven't logged in for so many years (2,3,4,5 years etc). In my database I'm holding the last login like this: 14th Dec 16, 16:00. How would I do a query to select all the users from the year posted? 

 

Hope this is slightly clearer

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You can't do correct comparisons on dates in that format (for example 15th Dec 15 > 14th Dec 16 whereas you need it to be less than). Always store dates in a database as yyyy-mm-dd format (type DATE, DATETIME or TIMESTAMP).

 

To make it usable you have the overhead of using STR_TO_DATE() function to do a compare in a query.

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