Ah... the "$datetoget = ($datetoget-1)" is the problem.
Convert the Gregorian Ymd date to Julian, subtract 1, then convert the
Julian date back to Gregorian (or Hebrew ;->). I've not had much success
with MySQL's date functions.
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Faye Keesic wrote:
> I had no problems with retrieving news stories from previous days before
> 2002, and haven't changed any of my code. This site has been up for a year,
> and I can't recall anything like this happening when 2001 rolled around.
>
> Please excuse the messy code, as this was the first php/db web site I
> designed. I took out the formatting stuff... :)
>
> >From my php page, I call a function:
>
> get_most_recent_stories(date("Ymd"));
> - which passes today's date, formatted for for the db
>
> In my code:
>
> - this is the function I call - which in turn calls the function below
> (no_yesterdays_stories($datetoget) to subtract a day if there is no news
> items for the current date, which then calls the same
> get_most_recent_stories() function, but passes a "lower" date. Ideally,
> these will loop until there are stories found for a certain day.
>
>
> function get_most_recent_stories($datetoget)
>
> {
> //Get the headlines, summaries and links to the story
> db_connect();
> $sql = "SELECT * FROM tblStory WHERE (StoryDate=$datetoget)";
> $results = mysql_query($sql);
> if ($results) {
> if ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) {
> echo $row[StorySum];}
> while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results));
> }
> else {
> no_yesterdays_stories($datetoget); } }
> }
>
> function no_yesterdays_stories($datetoget)
>
> {
> //query has returned no stories from yesterday (holiday, etc.)
> //keep subtracting on day from yesterday's date until there are stories
> found
> $datetoget=($datetoget-1);
> get_most_recent_stories($datetoget);
> }
>
> --
> Faye Keesic
> Computer Programmer Analyst/Web Page Design
>
>
> > From: Rick Emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 09:05:42 -0600
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Date problem with new year
> >
> > No bug, mate.
> >
> > Post your code so that we can help ya...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Faye Keesic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 8:56 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [PHP-DB] Date problem with new year
> >
> >
> > I have a db site that always displays the most recent occurrence of news
> > stories....
> >
> > The last occurrence of stories was last year (2001-12-31) and up to the new
> > year rolling over, I had no difficulty subtracting days, etc.
> >
> > Is there a bug in Mysql? PHP that I don't know of..
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> >
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