On Monday 10 February 2003 06:57, Barrie Matthews wrote:
> I am using the query below in attempting to control access to a web site.
> The idea is that today's date must be between 1 month before the start date
> and 1 month after the finish date.
>
> $query1 = "SELECT VFT_name FROM `vft` WHERE CURDATE() >
> DATE_SUB(VFT_date_start, INTERVAL 1 month) AND CURDATE() <
> DATE_ADD(VFT_date_finish, INTERVAL 1 month) ";
>
> It seems that if a start date is say March 31, then any date in February
> (even Feb 01) is going to return true. I tried using days (28, 29, .. 35
> etc) instead of 1 month in the query but that doesn't seem to work.
>
> For a start-date of March 11 how can I deny access on Feb 10 but allow
> access starting on Feb 11?
There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your DATE_SUB() and DATE_ADD():
mysql> select date_sub('2003-03-11', interval 1 month);
+------------------------------------------+
| date_sub('2003-03-11', interval 1 month) |
+------------------------------------------+
| 2003-02-11 |
+------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.09 sec)
mysql> select date_sub('2003-03-31', interval 1 month);
+------------------------------------------+
| date_sub('2003-03-31', interval 1 month) |
+------------------------------------------+
| 2003-02-28 |
+------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
You should check that VFT_date_start and VFT_date_finish actually contain what
you expect them to contain. And also you could consider using BETWEEN instead
of the less-than and greater-than comparisons.
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