On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Miller,
Terion<tmil...@springfi.gannett.com> wrote:
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> On 7/28/09 9:40 AM, "Bastien Koert" <phps...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Bob McConnell<r...@cbord.com> wrote:
>> From: Miller, Terion
>> On 7/28/09 8:35 AM, "Ashley Sheridan" <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> $pastDays = strtotime("-30 days");
>>> $date = date("d/m/y", $pastDays);
>>>
>>> Well I tried and got no results from my query and I know there
>>> results with date ranges in the last 30 days, I basically need
>>> to count backward from now() 30 days I thought strtotime() would
>>> work well..but the fields in the db are varchar not date fields
>>> they are all formatted the same though 00/00/00:
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>> If the dates are really stored as varchar, you are doing a lexical
>> comparison on a field that is meaningless in that context. You will need
>> to break the string down somewhere and do three separate comparisons.
>>
>> Bob McConnell
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> Teri,
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> have you considered making the field a date/ datetime type? You could
> add the column, then copy the data over with a sql statement casting
> it to the correct date format you require and then drop the original
> column
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> Bastien
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> Cat, the other other white meat
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> I don't think I can this data is being pulled from our county health site, so
> it comes in how they put it on their page (scraping here) Â and I'm grabbing
> it using regex. (and this is totally public info so it's legit-my employer
> tells me)
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Yep, if you are not in control of the data and are just screenscraping
a site, then you don't have too many choices.
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