On Saturday 07 December 2002 11:39, Miguel Br�s wrote:
> Ok guys,
>
> having a problem here. I did my table with 6 fields, they are:
> id position name timein timeout date
>
> I have a form to insert the info on the fields, and at the date field, I
> have a drop down menu that returns me the next 7 days (the date in d/m/y),
> people will choose the date they want and that will be stored on the table.
>
> Now I want to retrieve the position, name, timein and timeout from by table
> and display it on a page. But I want only the records for the present date.
> I inserted the info on my table and on the date's field I inserted 07/12/02
> and 06/12/02 just for testing
>
> I called the data via a query: SELECT position, name, timein, timeout, date
> FROM table WHERE date=NOW()
> It was supposed that only the record from the present date was shown. But
> not, I can't have anything. Only the custom message I did if nothing was
> available
NOW() returns the current date and TIME. Use CURRENT_DATE or CUR_DATE() to get
just the date portion.
> One more thing, how can I do to prevent that different people apply for a
> same position, on the same day and during the "shift" of the first one that
> applied?
Check the archives, there was a thread in the last couple of days about
"Checking for Overlapping Dates". The same principles should apply so it may
be useful reading.
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