Select column data from the last 7 days and echo results?

Question

I am trying to pull amounts from the pay column of the loads table for the last 7 days and echo it to show results. i have tried several different way to do this and i am stumped.

<?PHP
            $startDate = date("Y-m-d");
            $endDate = strtotime(date("Y-m-d"). "-7 days");
            $lsql ="SELECT * FROM loads WHERE created_at BETWEEN '$startDate 00:00:00' AND '$endDate 23:59:59'";
                foreach ($link->query($lsql) as $ldata) { 
                    echo $ldata['pay'];
                }
            ?>

Answer 1

You probably just need to do:

SELECT * FROM loads WHERE created_at >= CURDATE() - INTERVAL 7 DAY;

directly from MySQL query. Or use DATE_SUB like:

SELECT * FROM loads WHERE created_at >= DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 7 DAY)

If CURDATE() is not working, change it to NOW() like:

SELECT * FROM loads WHERE created_at >= DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 7 DAY)