on my website I have a submit button that i'm using as a link. I only want this button to show up during certain dates. I have an sql database set up with the starting and ending dates entered. I want the button to show up durring and between these dates. How can I do this with PHP? no one else can help me so I hope someone here can.

Well, you could do a select on the mysql table using the builtin today's date and time function called NOW()

SELECT * FROM datetable_name_here
WHERE
NOW() > start_date_field_name
AND
NOW() < end_date_field_name

If you get any rows, then it is between those dates. try this on the sql command line first, before using php.

You may need to use the to_days function to convert these dates to "number of dates between" to make this sql work.

ex:
to_days(NOW()) - to_days(start_date_field_name) > 0


hope this gets you going in the right direction