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Posted by Surfer! on 11/27/54 11:58
In message <1158561685.666825.252900@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
ameshkin <amir.meshkin@gmail.com> writes
>What I am trying to do, is...
>
>Find users in a database between two ages.
>
>$minage
>$maxage
>
>The birthdays of the users are in the database in this format
>01-30-1980
>
>Now this function takes a birthday in this format 1980-01-30 and
>returns the age
>
> function birthday ($birthday)
> {
> list($year,$month,$day) = explode("-",$birthday);
> $year_diff = date("Y") - $year;
> $month_diff = date("m") - $month;
> $day_diff = date("d") - $day;
> if ($month_diff < 0) $year_diff--;
> elseif (($month_diff==0) && ($day_diff < 0)) $year_diff--;
> return $year_diff;
> }
>
>But what I need to do, is somehow only show the results from the
>database where the birthday is in between two different ages.
>
>How do I do this. My brain hurts enough already from writing the
>function above. Can anyone help?
>
Do it in the SQL you use to select from the database. Of course this
assumes you have used a date-type column to hold the date of birth!
For MySQL see:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html
Check the YEAR function.
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Surfer!
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