在MySQL数据库中比较日期

Question

Being experienced in PHP, I lack in the area of comparing two dates in database.

I have two values stored in my database. Which are simply just unix time stamps.

Value 1: post_time

Value 2: expire_time

The expire time is just 7 days after the posted time. I simply need to get all posts that haven't "expired".

For the time being I've been using: if(($post['post_time']) >= time() - (60*60*24*7)) , which works fine. But I'd much rather find a solution right in the query to get the results. Rather than pull all results and then filter them later.

Here is my query:

SELECT id, uid, title, description, 
       price, image, tags, post_type, 
       category, post_time, expire_time 
  FROM posts 
 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 8 

Your help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Just do it the way @Dagon did it:

SELECT id, uid, title, description, 
       price, image, tags, post_type, 
       category, post_time, expire_time 
  FROM posts WHERE post_time >= UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW()) - (60*60*24*7) 
 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 8