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POUsing FQL to retrieve only upcoming birthdays from Facebook API
 

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    <p>Using the <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/" rel="nofollow">information on FQL</a> and <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/user/" rel="nofollow">the user table</a> from Facebook's Developer's docs, I've come up with the following code. </p> <pre><code> //build fql string $fql = "SELECT name, birthday_date FROM user WHERE uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me()) AND strlen(birthday_date) != 0 AND substr(birthday_date,0,3) IN ('{$currentMonth}/', '{$nextMonth}/')"; $fql.=$orderBy; $fql.=" LIMIT " . $limit; //query facebook $params = array( 'method' =&gt; 'fql.query', 'query' =&gt; $fql, 'callback' =&gt; '' ); $birthdays = $this-&gt;facebook_obj-&gt;api($params); </code></pre> <p><code>$currentMonth</code> and <code>$nextMonth</code> are set to string representations of the current month and next month respectively, in mm format. (eg "09", "10" etc.) </p> <p>This is "working", but let's say that today is November 29th, I have 20 friends with birthday's in November and <code>$limit</code> is set to 10. In this case, there is a very good chance that the 10 birthdays it returns will all be before November 29th.</p> <p>What I would really like to do is get upcoming birthdays from today's day out, for this month and next. How could I modify this query to accomplish that? </p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>*<em>*</em> Edit, see comment thread between Shawn and I for possible alternative solutions. No answer accepted yet as none directly addresses original code / question.</p>
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