CakePHP check if there is a booked date - date

Question

I'm struggling with this since a week ago and it's driving me crazy.
I'm doing a website for doing surveys in a forest using CakePHP 2.x.
There is many places, and each place has different points. An user can choose one of those points and book a day for a survey, but there can be only one survey in a point each day.
The models are: Place, Point, User, BookedSurvey
The controllers are: PlacesController, PointsController, UsersController, BookedSurveysControllers
The tables (omitting some that are not necessaries for this question) are places, points, users, booked_surveys; and inside of booked_surveys you can find the fields id (INT AUTO INCREMENT), survey_date (datetime), point_id (int) and user_id (int).
The views are: add, edit, remove, index for each one
When viewing a point, an user can select a date and press "Book survey". This is part of the view:
<h2>Book a date:</h2>
<?php
echo $this->Form->create('BoostCake', array(
'inputDefaults' => array(
'div' => 'form-group',
'label' => array(
'class' => 'col col-md-1 control-label'
),
'wrapInput' => 'col col-md-9',
'class' => 'form-control'
),
'class' => 'form-horizontal'
));
?>
<?php
echo $this->Form->create('Point');
echo $this->Form->input('BookedSurvey.survey_date', array(
'type'=>'date',
'label' => '',
'dateFormat' => 'YMD',
'minYear' => date('Y'),
'minMonth' => date('M'),
'minDay' => date('D'),
'div' => 'col col-md-9',
'style' => 'margin: 15px 5px 5px 0px'
));
echo $this->Form->hidden('User.id', array(
'value' => $user_id)
);
?>
<div class="form-group">
<?php
echo $this->Form->submit('Book survey', array(
'div' => 'col col-md-9',
'class' => 'btn btn-success btn-lg',
'style' => 'margin: 10px 5px 5px 10px'
));
?>
</div>
Then, the controler must search in booked_survey if the point has any survey for the same date. As each field should have only one survey per day, an error will be shown if there is any other survey in the same point for the same day.
And this is the problem: it never finds any coincidence. I Googled, tried all the different options, and still is not working. This is my seach in the PointsController (it's simplified, at the moment I'm trying to search any survey on the same date):
// Begin of comprobation
$booked_condition = $this->Point->BookedSurvey->find('first', array(
'conditions' => array(
'DATE(BookedSurvey.survey_date)' => 'date()'
)
)
);
if ($booked_condition) {
echo "Already booked";
}
// End of comprobation
To be honest, I don't know what is failing, but please, if somebody can help...
OK, solved:
if ($this->request->is('post')) {
$date = $this->request->data['BookedSurvey']['survey_date'];
$formattedDate = CakeTime::format(
"{$date['year']}-{$date['month']}-{$date['day']}",
"%B %e, %Y"
);
print_r($formattedDate); //'Jul 23, 2014'
$isBooked = $this->Point->BookedSurvey->find('count', array(
// replace the date as you see fit, using Jul 23, 2014 as an example
'conditions' => CakeTime::dayAsSql($formattedDate, 'survey_date')
));
echo "status";
print_r($isBooked);
print_r(date('m'));
print_r($this->request->data['BookedSurvey']['survey_date']);
if($isBooked > 0) {
echo "Already booked";
}
}

Answer 1

As suggested, this is the solution to the problem:
if ($this->request->is('post')) {
$date = $this->request->data['BookedSurvey']['survey_date'];
$formattedDate = CakeTime::format(
"{$date['year']}-{$date['month']}-{$date['day']}",
"%B %e, %Y"
);
print_r($formattedDate); //'Jul 23, 2014'
$isBooked = $this->Point->BookedSurvey->find('count', array(
// replace the date as you see fit, using Jul 23, 2014 as an example
'conditions' => CakeTime::dayAsSql($formattedDate, 'survey_date')
));
echo "status";
print_r($isBooked);
print_r(date('m'));
print_r($this->request->data['BookedSurvey']['survey_date']);
if($isBooked > 0) {
echo "Already booked";
}
}