hello, im using a delete function but some how i want to use an if statement; for example if the current server date matches the date from a row from a database table and if the date is 2days from the current date it can't be delete.

Sounds like it's just a SQL issue, not a PHP issue. Check out:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/...functions.html

The first example (the SELECT example) should give you all that you need -- You'll basically just be changing the interval (from 30 days to 2 days), the column name, and using DELETE instead of SELECT

panther786 - I'm not entirely sure I understand your question, but I'll try to give you an answer.

It looks like you're trying to not delete a record if the day is within two days of the current date. Assuming that is the case, you just need to calculate the time difference between the record being deleted and the current time. To do so, you can just implement a time_difference function and check out the value to see if it is less then a certain amount. See the php time function page and search for difference. As the other poster said, you can also do this in SQL, but I didn't know if you had a reason for not wanting to do it that way.