date_format() in MySQL statment

[rastlin]

This is likely simple but I was wondering what the display of date_format() look like when/if it used like this.

date_format(db_date,'%m %d') = '$monthDay'

say if date in the DB was 2006-02-26 would the date_format() above look like 02-26? So if $monthDay equaled 02-26 they would match....

SQL query looks like this
$query = "SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE date_format(db_date,'%m %d') = '$monthDay'";


Thanks for your help!
Stephen

[hitman6003]

date_format is not a php function, therefor you would have to use php's strtotime and date functions for format your dates correctly.

[code]$date = '2006-02-26';
$date = strtotime($date);

$newdate = date("m-d", $date);

$query = "SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE date_format(db_date,'%m %d') = '$newdate'";[/code]


Or, this might work, but don't hold me to it:

$date = '2006-02-26';

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