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How do I get the next/top 5 events based on a date range?
Posted on 2012-12-21
I have a database of events for the next 12 months.
How do I query the top 5 events based on today's date for the next 6 months?
What is the syntax for the today's date and six months from now?
I've tried this:
$query = 'SELECT TOP 5 date
,startTime
,endTime
,title
,details
,room
FROM
WWW.dbo.Events
WHERE date BETWEEN (today) and (six months from today)
ORDER BY date DESC';
How do I query the top 5 events based on today's date for the next 6 months?
What is the syntax for the today's date and six months from now?
I've tried this:
$query = 'SELECT TOP 5 date
,startTime
,endTime
,title
,details
,room
FROM
WWW.dbo.Events
WHERE date BETWEEN (today) and (six months from today)
ORDER BY date DESC';
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when I do that it says:
Notice: Array to string conversion
how would I use the dates in the query above?
Notice: Array to string conversion
how would I use the dates in the query above?
ok, I can get the dates I need in the proper format this way:
$today = date("Y-m-d");
echo $today;
$sixmonths = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),dat
echo "<br>Six Months is ".date("Y-m-d", $sixmonths);
but when I add them to my query they say they are not columns?
$today = date("Y-m-d");
echo $today;
$sixmonths = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),dat
echo "<br>Six Months is ".date("Y-m-d", $sixmonths);
but when I add them to my query they say they are not columns?
Should be the following:
SELECT TOP 5 date ,startTime ,endTime ,title ,details ,room
FROM WWW.dbo.Events
WHERE date BETWEEN GETDATE() and DATEADD(month, 6, GETDATE())
ORDER BY date DESC';
SELECT TOP 5 date ,startTime ,endTime ,title ,details ,room
FROM WWW.dbo.Events
WHERE date BETWEEN GETDATE() and DATEADD(month, 6, GETDATE())
ORDER BY date DESC';
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[42S22]: [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]Invalid column name '$today'.' in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\db2.php
Doing it that way:
$query = "SELECT TOP 5 date, startTime, endTime, title, details, room
FROM WWW.dbo.Events
WHERE date BETWEEN '" . $today . "' and '" . $sixmonths . "'
ORDER BY date DESC;"
$query = "SELECT TOP 5 date, startTime, endTime, title, details, room
FROM WWW.dbo.Events
WHERE date BETWEEN '" . $today . "' and '" . $sixmonths . "'
ORDER BY date DESC;"
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