CakePHP 3 Between two date - orm

Question

I try to do an query in my controller, I want find all entity where the start and en date are between NOW(),
if $start and $end are between NOW() so show all entity, but i didn't succeed
My find is :
$day = date('l');
$now = Time::now();
$tvs = $this->Tvs
->find('all')
->contain(['Users'])
->where(['Tvs.day' => $day])
->andWhere(function($exp) {
return $exp->between($now, 'Tvs.start', 'tvs.end', $now);
});
How make this query ?
Thanks for you'r help !

Answer 1

Assuming you are trying to find all twhe record having $now between start and end the query is
sice the manual says that the first argument of the between fucntion should be name of the field (so it can't be a date) instead of between you can use two comparison
$tvs = $this->Tvs
->find('all')
->contain(['Users'])
->where(['Tvs.day' => $day])
->andWhere(function($exp) use($now) {
$exp->lte('Tvs.start', $now);
$exp->gte('Tvs.end', $now);
return $exp;
});
anyway you can make use of the mysql NOW() function directly into the query if the $now variable contains the same value of the NOW() function
->andWhere(function($exp, $q) {
return $exp->between($q->func()->now(), 'Tvs.start', 'Tvs.end');
});
there's anothe method: you can use BETWEEN and a palceholder to bind the value of $now
->andWhere([':now BETWEEN Tvs.start AND Tvs.end'])
->bind(':now', $now, 'datetime');
or using cakephp sql functions
->where(function($exp, $q) {
return $exp->between(':now', 'Tvs.start', 'Tvs.end');
})
->bind(':now', $now, 'datetime');

Answer 2

Since CakePHP 3.6 you can use identifiers:
return $query->where(function ($exp, $q) {
$today = $q->func()->now();
$start = $q->identifier('Tvs.start');
$end = $q->identifier('Tvs.end');
return $exp
->between($today,$start,$end);
});