My query is working fine but I wish to show counts of today's date + add 2 more days in advance and order data by today's date followed by tomorrow and day after?

since there are already too many records so the **varchar** row `meeting_date` cannot be changed in another format

Here is MySQL query 

date is stored as month/date/year as in 11/01/2016.

```
$today = date("m/d/Y");

$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) as num FROM records WHERE meeting = 'Yes' AND (meeting_date LIKE '%".$today."%') ORDER BY id DESC";
$total_pages = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query($query));

```

Appreciate your time and help.