mySQL SELECT upcoming birthdays

Question

I\'m trying to write a query to select users of a database whose birthdays are in the next 7 days.

I\'ve done a lot of research but I can\'t come up with a working s

Answer 1

Its very easy and simple. No need to use any if conditions or anything else you just need to use DATE_FORMAT() function of mysql.

Here is my sql query that is

SELECT id,email ,dob FROM `users` where DATE_FORMAT(dob, '%m-%d') >= DATE_FORMAT(NOW(), '%m-%d') and DATE_FORMAT(dob, '%m-%d') <= DATE_FORMAT((NOW() + INTERVAL +7 DAY), '%m-%d')

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