I am making a booking system and therefor I need to be able to check to see if timeslots are available before letting a user book (my function also adds 1 timeslot before and after to check for to cover traveling time etc.)
function timeSlotAvailable($date, $time){
$timeslots = array($time - 1, $time, $time + 1);
$slots = join(',',$timeslots);
$STH = $this->database->prepare("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM bookings WHERE bookings.date = :bdate AND bookings.slot IN (:ids)");
$STH->execute(array(":bdate"=>$date, ":ids"=>$slots));
$data = $STH->fetchColumn();
return "checking date:".$date." for slots ".$slots." the count is ".$data;
}
outputs
checking date:02/15/2014 for slots 3,4,5 the count is 0
Now in bookings
There is a slot that is being used for that date on time slot 4. I then try this query in phpmyadmin
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM bookings WHERE bookings.date = "02/15/2014" AND bookings.slot IN (3,4,5)
Which is essentially the same query ( same variables being submitted ) but returns with the correct response of 1
. This makes me think there is something wrong with my code that I cannot see.