MySQL CURDATE() function
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Description
In MySQL the CURDATE() returns the current date in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format or 'YYYYMMDD' format depending on whether numeric or string is used in the function. CURRENT_DATE and CURRENT_DATE() are the synonym of CURDATE().
Note: All of the example codes of this page will produce outputs depending upon the current date.
Syntax
CURDATE ()
Example :
Code
SELECT CURDATE();
Explanation
The above statement will return the current date in ‘YYYY-MM-DD’ format.
Output
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PHP script
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>example-CURDATE-function - php mysql examples | w3resource</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "<h2>Select current date using MySQL : </h2>";
echo "<table border='1' style='border-collapse: collapse;border-color: silver;'>";
echo "<tr style='font-weight: bold;'>";
echo "<td width='100' align='center'>Required Date</td>";
echo "</tr>";
include("../dbopen.php");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT CURDATE()");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td align='center' width='200'>" . $row['CURDATE()'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
?>
</body>
</html>
Example : CURDATE() function in numeric format
Code
SELECT CURDATE()+1;
Explanation
The above statement will return the current date in 'YYYYMMDD' format. Because the context of the function is numeric.
Output
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PHP script
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>example1-CURDATE-function - php mysql examples | w3resource</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "<h2>Showing one day after current date in YYYYMMDD format using MySQL : </h2>";
echo "<table border='1' style='border-collapse: collapse;border-color: silver;'>";
echo "<tr style='font-weight: bold;'>";
echo "<td width='100' align='center'>Required Date</td>";
echo "</tr>";
include("../dbopen.php");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT CURDATE()+1");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td align='center' width='200'>" . $row['CURDATE()+1'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
?>
</body>
</html>
