RE: Weekly Date Driven Content in Cold Fusion?

[Tomas Becklin :: Web Developer]

Loose the pound (#) signs inside <CFSET> tag, no need for them

and are you sure that the form variable is spelled right,try to output it
before doing anything else with it... besides that you need to put '' around
the "where my_date <= '#start_date#'"

If the my_date field is a TEXT field that is...



-----Original Message-----
From: SHEETS, DAYV (PB) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 1:51 PM
To: CF-Server
Subject: RE: Weekly Date Driven Content in Cold Fusion?


Yep - and I also tried it using the Date/Time stamp...

When I attempt to try your suggestion, I receive the following error:

<snip>
===============================
Error Diagnostic Information

An error occurred while evaluating the expression:


 my_date = #CreateODBCDate(FORM.my_date_column, "mm/dd/yyyy")#



Error near line 1, column 7.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----

Error resolving parameter FORM.MY_DATE_COLUMN


The specified form field cannot be found. This problem is very likely due to
the fact that you have misspelled the form field name.



The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of
(CFSET), occupying document position (1:1) to (1:69).

</snip>
===============================


My page looks like this -
===============================
<snip>
<CFSET my_date = #CreateODBCDate(FORM.my_date_column, "mm/dd/yyyy")#>
<CFSET start_date = #CreateODBCDate(FORM.start_date, "mm/dd/yyyy")#>
<CFSET end_date = #CreateODBCDate(FORM.end_date, "mm/dd/yyyy")#>

<cfquery name="weekly" datasource="temp">
    select * from weekly where my_date >= #start_date# and my_date_column <=
#end_date#
</cfquery>

</snip>
===============================
..... any advise... ? besides the obvious (pull my hair out) ;)

TA,

Dayv


-----Original Message-----
From: Hong, Tammy T [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 1:10 PM
To: CF-Server
Subject: RE: Weekly Date Driven Content in Cold Fusion?


Humm have you formatted to ODBC?? Not sure if this will help or perhaps you
have done this already?? Just curious but why is my_date_column TEXT instead
of Date/Time data type??

<CFSET my_date = #CreateODBCDate(FORM.my_date_column, "mm/dd/yyyy")#>
<CFSET start_date = #CreateODBCDate(FORM.start_date, "mm/dd/yyyy")#>
<CFSET end_date = #CreateODBCDate(FORM.end_date, "mm/dd/yyyy")#>

then query DB:

<cfquery name="weekly" datasource="temp">
    select * from weekly where my_date >= #start_date# and my_date_column <=
#end_date#
</cfquery>

-T

-----Original Message-----
From: SHEETS, DAYV (PB) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:34 PM
To: CF-Server
Subject: RE: Weekly Date Driven Content in Cold Fusion?


Ack -

I am still having difficulty using the code provided. For some reason I keep
receiving an error. I used the following example provided (for now, I am
using access as the db):

<!--weekly.cfm-->

<cfset date_in = #createodbcdate(now())#>

<cfquery name="weekly" datasource="temp">
    select * from weekly where my_date_column >= #form.start_date# and
my_date_column <= #form.end_date#
</cfquery>

On my database, I have the following feilds:

QuoteID                 =>AutoNumber
Quote                   =>Memo
Author                  =>Memo
start_date              =>Date/Time
end_date                =>Date/Time
my_date_column  =>Text

When the page is executed, I receive the following error:

<snip>
Error Diagnostic Information

An error occurred while evaluating the expression:


#form.start_date#



Error near line 4, column 51.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----

Error resolving parameter FORM.START_DATE


The specified form field cannot be found. This problem is very likely due to
the fact that you have misspelled the form field name.



The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of
(#form.start_date#), occupying document position (4:50) to (4:66).

</snip>

-Ack!-

Can someone tell me what I need to correct in order to get it to work (with
the relevent codes entirety)?

Thanks,

Dayv

-----Original Message-----
From: SHEETS, DAYV (PB) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 1:26 PM
To: CF-Server
Subject: RE: Weekly Date Driven Content in Cold Fusion?


So should I name the column "my_date_column" and if the date falls within
the date span from the current date it will then be displayed, OR should I
instead have two columns; one named "start_date" and one named "end_date"?

Please clarify...

Thanks again for all of your responses! :)

Dayv


-----Original Message-----
From: Heath Tucker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 7:13 AM
To: CF-Server
Subject: Re: Weekly Date Driven Content in Cold Fusion?


I would go so far as to run a dateformat statement on the input dates
to insure they are read correctly.

#DateFormat(Now(),"mm/dd/yyyy")#

<cfquery name="..." datasource="...">
    SELECT *
    FROM mytable
    WHERE my_date_column >= #DateFormat(form.start_date,"mm/dd/yyyy")# and
my_date_column <= #DateFormat(form.end_date,"mm/dd/yyyy")#
</cfquery>



----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: Weekly Date Driven Content in Cold Fusion?


>
>
> I think he actually wants something like this:
> <cfquery name="..." datasource="...">
>     select * from mytable where my_date_column >= #form.start_date# and
> my_date_column <= #form.end_date#
> </cfquery>
>
>
> tom
>
>
>
> Of course!
>
> try somethig like this:
>
> <cfquery name="..." datasource="...">
>     select * from mytable where start_date <= #createodbcdate(now())# and
> end_date >= #createodbcdate(now())#
> </cfquery>
>
> Alejandro Mozo Quesada
> Sistemas / Programaci
>
>
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