Best practice for PHP/MySQL Appointment/Booking system

Question

I need some people to battle a \"best practice\" for a PHP/MySQL appointment system for a hairdresser I\'m currently working on. Hopefully, together we can clear some things up

Answer 1

Use MySQL keyword BETWEEN.

SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE mydate BETWEEN start_date AND end_date;

If you want to see if an appointment is available between now and a day, you could do this:

$enddate = strtotime('+1 day', time());

SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE mydate BETWEEN NOW() AND {$enddate};

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