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Having issues coming up with the proper code/select statement.

My DB has three fields in particular. start_date_month, start_date_day, start_date_year.

I am trying to get results that are set to happen within a 2 week time period from today's date.

How would I go about coding this?

I did a $current_date = mktime(0,0,0, date('n'), date('d'), date('Y'));, but I am confused on how to get the right info from the DB.

Any help would be great!
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I am I correct in thinking that you use 3 fields to store the date in your database ?
one field for year one for month and one for days ?

say you want to select the dates from january 2 2007 till 16 is easy
select * from table where year is 2007 and month is 01 and day is =< 02 and day is => 16

but you will run into trouble soon because not all the months have the same number of days.
I would suggest working with a date field in your database instead of the 3 separate fields.
that way you can use all the mysql date functions. (google for mysql date functions if you want to have an idea what is possible)
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My DB has three fields in particular. start_date_month, start_date_day, start_date_year.
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Didn't catch that.  I would suggest consolidating these values in a date or datetime field.  Will make your life much easier when doing any sort of date arithmetic.

Patrick

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