Need help with Rowboat calls to filter based on Dates#

Hi,

I have created a mini event manager by my self (A simple form to submit an event and using getPage and Rowboat, I fetch the list). Now, I would like to filter the events based on the Start Date (My table structure is: Title (Text), StartDate (Date), StartTime (Text), EndDate (Date), EndDate (Date), EndTime (Text), Location (Text) and Description (Text)).

My date format is 4/15/2011 (m/d/y)

My current call is as follows:


I would like to add a where clause to get only those events that are starting today or in the future. I don't want to list the past events.

I tried the following, by at this time the snippet sets the value to default.


Can anybody help me resolve this, please.

Rowboat does not support literals like that. You should create another snippet, like say "getCurrentDate", and put it in the parameter:

Thanks. That worked for me.

I'm seeing a unique problem in this. In the below comparison the code assumes 06/15/2012 (%m/%d/%Y) to be a past date and does not display it in the list.

My snippet call is:

[[!getPage:default=`There are no upcoming events.`?
&element=`Rowboat`
&table=`TABLENAME`
&where=`{"startdate:>=":""}`
&sortBy=`startdate`
&cacheResults=`0`
&totalVar=`rowboat.total`
&tpl=`TPLNAME`
&limit=`10`
]]

where my startdate is a varchar date in the DB and getCurrentDate is as follows:
<?php
$rnStrFormat = '%m/%d/%Y';
$rnStrToday = strftime($rnStrFormat);
return $rnStrToday;

What can I do to actually compare the two strings as dates to get the right output?

I was able to resolve the issue by simply changing the saved Date format and current date format to `yy/dd/mm`.

In PHP strings are compared by their ordinal values of the characters from the {0} to the {strlen-1} one, thus comparing dates in the format `mm/dd/yy` would usually give incorrect results in some cases.