[FX.php List] Solved? Anyone got a sober solution to a date range search?

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Well what I wrote here does not have to do with stored, however there
is an abstraction layer used for searches with ... and it has a
peculiar way of not using the same format as the XML RPC delivers to
use namely MM/DD/CCYY, when performing date range searches
MM.DD.CCYY...M2.D2.C2Y2 is the formatting of choice.

ggt

2008/8/12 Tim 'Webko' Booth <tim at nicheit.com.au>:
>
> On 12/08/2008, at 9:43 AM, Kevin Futter wrote:
>
>> On 12/08/08 9:14 AM, "Tim 'Webko' Booth" <tim at nicheit.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 11/08/2008, at 8:49 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know this worked with Filemaker 5/6
>>>> ---
>>>> $q = new FX( $serverIP, $webCompanionPort );
>>>> $q->SetDBData( $database, 'unit', 'all' );
>>>> $q->AddDBParam( 'datefield', '1/7/2008...31/7/2008' );
>>>> $r = $q->FMFind();
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> But what is the FileMaker 7/8/9 equivalent on the XML RPC level to
>>>> FileMaker's: 1.7.2008...31.7.2008 ?
>>>>
>>>> :-) Hmm it looks like this works! :-) I just played around with the
>>>> characters and numbers.
>>>> ---
>>>> $q = new FX( $serverIP, $webCompanionPort );
>>>> $q->SetDBData( $database, 'unit', 'all' );
>>>> $q->AddDBParam( 'datefield', '7.1.2008...7.31.2008' );
>>>> $r = $q->FMFind();
>>>
>>> Underneath it all, no matter what your localisation settings, all
>>> dates are now stored MM/DD/YYYY and searches need to be adjusted
>>> accordingly
>>
>> I'm not sure (or convinced) that they're stored that way Tim, but they are
>> certainly presented to the XML interface in that format, no matter what...
>>
>> Being in Australia too, I make great use of a little swapDateFormat
>> function
>> whenever dates are involved.
>>
>> (Internal date storage would be in seconds since epoch, no?)
>
> Since 1/1/1970, yes... and 'stored' may have been the wrong word but the
> effect is the same...
>
> And there is an upside, because it is indeed a valid Unix-style date, so the
> date commands/formatting functions can be used on the way out of the
> database without any further wrangling.
>
> Cheers
>
> T
>
>
>
>
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