I want to list all users who registered in between the $start_date and $end_date.I have written a metaquery,but it returns empty.Please help.

$start_date        =  2014-08-16 09:28:17
$end_date          =  2015-08-16 09:28:17
$current_user_id   =  get_current_user_id();
$args = array(
'meta_query' => array(
    'relation' => 'AND',
        array(
            'key' => 'user_registered',
            'value' => $start_date,
            'compare' => '>',
            'type' => 'NUMERIC'
        ),
        array(
            'key' => 'user_registered',
            'value' => $end_date,
            'compare' => '<=',
            'type' => 'NUMERIC'
        ),
        array(
            'key'  => 'referral_id',
            'value' => 'current_user_id',
            'compare'=> '=',
            'type' => 'NUMERIC'
        )
    ),

);
$users = get_users($args);

I want to list all users who registered in between the $start_date and $end_date.I have written a metaquery,but it returns empty.Please help.

$start_date        =  2014-08-16 09:28:17
$end_date          =  2015-08-16 09:28:17
$current_user_id   =  get_current_user_id();
$args = array(
'meta_query' => array(
    'relation' => 'AND',
        array(
            'key' => 'user_registered',
            'value' => $start_date,
            'compare' => '>',
            'type' => 'NUMERIC'
        ),
        array(
            'key' => 'user_registered',
            'value' => $end_date,
            'compare' => '<=',
            'type' => 'NUMERIC'
        ),
        array(
            'key'  => 'referral_id',
            'value' => 'current_user_id',
            'compare'=> '=',
            'type' => 'NUMERIC'
        )
    ),

);
$users = get_users($args);

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2 Answers 2

EDIT

start and end date is following the date format. But you are using NUMERIC type casting in meta query. You need to use DATE type like

array(
            'key' => 'user_registered',
            'value' => $start_date,
            'compare' => '>',
            'type' => 'DATE'
        ),
        array(
            'key' => 'user_registered',
            'value' => $end_date,
            'compare' => '<=',
            'type' => 'DATE'
        )

Hope that this will help you.

Ahh...there have another problem. You are saving the data in $current_user_id but you are not using this variable in third array. Try this once

array(
            'key'  => 'referral_id',
            'value' => $current_user_id,
            'compare'=> '=',
            'type' => 'NUMERIC'
        )

Full Code:

$args = array(
   'meta_query' => array(
                         array(
                                'relation' => 'AND',
                                array(
                                    'key' => 'user_registered',
                                    'value' => $start_date,
                                    'compare' => '>',
                                    'type' => 'DATE'
                                ),
                                array(
                                    'key' => 'user_registered',
                                    'value' => $end_date,
                                    'compare' => '<=',
                                    'type' => 'DATE'
                                ),
                                array(
                                    'key'  => 'referral_id',
                                    'value' => $current_user_id,
                                    'compare'=> '=',
                                    'type' => 'NUMERIC'
                                )
                        )
                  )
);
$users = get_users($args);

Try my full code now.

The correct approach is now to use WP_Date_Query. See the date_query field in get_users() is described as:

An array that is handled through to the WP_Date_Query object. Date queries are allowed for the user_registered field.

You can generate the date_query array here: https://generatewp/wp_date_query/

Example

$date_query = array(
    'relation' => 'AND',
    array(
        'before'        => '2019-05-31',
        'after'         => '2019-01-01',
        'inclusive'     => true,
    ),
);
$users = get_users([
   'date_query' => $date_query
]);