CakePHP 3 - finder not loading correct data - mysql

Question

I have a table called Bookings, with the following attributes:
id
artist_id - foreign key
status
amount
created
modified
It is associated with tables Artists, Payments and Sessions.
In the View, I have used the jQuery plugin DataTables to display Bookings which meet the following conditions:
Their status is equal to 'confirmed'
Associated table Session's attribute date_end must be greater than the current date.
However, the second condition does not seem to work in that it returns nothing when data entries which do meet that condition exist.
In my controller, the corresponding find for this particular table:
$bookingsConfirmed = $this->Bookings->find('all',[
'contain' => ['Sessions', 'Sessions.Studios', 'Sessions.Engineers', 'Artists'],
'conditions'=>['status' => 'confirmed', 'Sessions.date_end >=' => DATE(Time::now())],
'order'=>['Bookings.created'=>'ASC']
]);
I've attempted the following changes to the condition, all of which showed no notable difference:
date_end >=' => DATE(Time::now())
'Sessions.date_end >=' => Time::now()
'date(Sessions.date_end) >=' => DATE(Time::now())
'date(Sessions.date_end) >=' => date(DATE(Time::now()))
If I switch around the >= sign to a <, all my booking data appear, despite not all of them meeting that condition.
In the SQL log, this is the output for this particular table:
SELECT
Bookings.id AS `Bookings__id`,
Bookings.artist_id AS `Bookings__artist_id`,
Bookings.status AS `Bookings__status`,
Bookings.amount AS `Bookings__amount`,
Bookings.created AS `Bookings__created`,
Bookings.modified AS `Bookings__modified`,
Sessions.id AS `Sessions__id`,
Sessions.booking_id AS `Sessions__booking_id`,
Sessions.studio_id AS `Sessions__studio_id`,
Sessions.engineer_id AS `Sessions__engineer_id`,
Sessions.guestengineer_id AS `Sessions__guestengineer_id`,
Sessions.date_start AS `Sessions__date_start`,
Sessions.date_end AS `Sessions__date_end`,
Sessions.starttime AS `Sessions__starttime`,
Sessions.hours AS `Sessions__hours`,
Sessions.session_genre AS `Sessions__session_genre`,
Sessions.no_people AS `Sessions__no_people`,
Sessions.studio_usage AS `Sessions__studio_usage`,
Sessions.otherpeople_req AS `Sessions__otherpeople_req`,
Sessions.special_req AS `Sessions__special_req`,
Sessions.created AS `Sessions__created`,
Sessions.modified AS `Sessions__modified`,
Studios.id AS `Studios__id`,
Studios.name AS `Studios__name`,
Studios.description AS `Studios__description`,
Studios.created AS `Studios__created`,
Studios.modified AS `Studios__modified`,
Engineers.id AS `Engineers__id`,
Engineers.user_id AS `Engineers__user_id`,
Engineers.eng_firstname AS `Engineers__eng_firstname`,
Engineers.eng_lastname AS `Engineers__eng_lastname`,
Engineers.eng_email AS `Engineers__eng_email`,
Engineers.eng_phoneno AS `Engineers__eng_phoneno`,
Engineers.eng_status AS `Engineers__eng_status`,
Engineers.rate AS `Engineers__rate`,
Engineers.created AS `Engineers__created`,
Engineers.modified AS `Engineers__modified`,
Artists.id AS `Artists__id`,
Artists.name AS `Artists__name`,
Artists.cp_id AS `Artists__cp_id`,
Artists.user_id AS `Artists__user_id`,
Artists.genre AS `Artists__genre`,
Artists.created AS `Artists__created`,
Artists.modified AS `Artists__modified`
FROM
bookings Bookings
LEFT JOIN sessions Sessions ON Bookings.id = (Sessions.booking_id)
INNER JOIN studios Studios ON Studios.id = (Sessions.studio_id)
LEFT JOIN engineers Engineers ON Engineers.id = (Sessions.engineer_id)
INNER JOIN artists Artists ON Artists.id = (Bookings.artist_id)
WHERE
(
status = 'confirmed'
AND Sessions.date_end >= '20/2/17, 4:47 p02'
)
ORDER BY
Bookings.created ASC
As of today's date, there should be 3 entries that show. I did a print of Time::now and got the date:
Cake\I18n\Time Object
(
[time] => 2017-02-20T16:47:11+11:00
[timezone] =>
[fixedNowTime] =>
)
The odd thing is that this was working fine last week, and the submission forms still work. In MySQL for example, my latest entry that I inputted today shows Sessions.date_end filled in, in a YYYY-MM-DD format like all the entries that proceeded it.

Answer 1

Try this line instead
`date_end >=' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s', Time::now()->getTimestamp())`
Note : use the exact word case for functions, date instead of DATE