forum post widget that needs an evaluation

[steven s]

I edited the script a bit.
Each thread found starts with MM/DD/YYYY -
I want to find only those threads that have today's date and future in the beginning of the title.

I thought I could create a variable

PHP Code:

$today  = date("m/d/Y"); 


and use

PHP Code:

LEFT(title, 10) >= $today 


as part of my search criteria.
Obviously it does not work.
http://www.nccbmwcca.org

How can I find only from today and future?

PHP Code:

ob_start();
    $output_bits = '';
    $today  = date("m/d/Y");
    $spacer = date("m");
      
    $get_schedule = vB::$db->query_read("
        SELECT *
        FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."thread
        WHERE prefixid='Chapter_Event' OR prefixid ='other' AND LEFT(title, 10) >= $today
        ORDER BY title ASC");

     while($schedule = vB::$db->fetch_array($get_schedule))
{

     $str = substr($schedule[title], 0, 2); /* get month of event */

/* separates posts by month */     
     
 if ( $str == $spacer )
{
    $output_bits .='<a target="_blank" href="showthread.php?t='.$schedule[threadid].'">'.$schedule[title].'</a><br />';
}
    else
{
    $output_bits .='<br /><a target="_blank" href="showthread.php?t='.$schedule[threadid].'">'.$schedule[title].'</a><br />';
}
    $spacer = $str;
}
/* done */

      $output = $output_bits;
      ob_end_clean();