Have you checked at the BETWEEN (x and y) clause?

e.g.

	SELECT * FROM table WHERE searchdate BETWEEN (date_online AND date_offline)

Not tested this on MySQL, but the above is perfectly legal SQL92.

Hope this helps.

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-----Original Message-----
From: boclair [mailto:boclair@bigpond.net.au]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:05 AM
To: php-db
Cc: boclair
Subject: FW: [PHP-DB] Select where date is in period

The database has a table of equipments with date fields for
date_online and date_offline.

The requirement is to find which equipments were available on a date
specified by the user, this being a variable created by the user.

My attempts at scripting for the condition where the date_online <=
'specified variable' and the date_offline => 'specified variable'
totally fail for syntax says mySQL (and possibly for method)

I would be grateful for help or a pointer to a reference.

Tim Morris

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