title: Select record(s) from mysql table where date is greater than or equal to today
body: <p>I am working  on a project that has rows in the database that contains a date. I want to echo the data for the fields that have a date that is equal or greater to today. I have looked at other post and tried a lot of different methods and have yet to succedd. Currently what I have returns an error when I do >= but when I just do = with the statement below, I get all rows from the database.</p>
  
  <pre><code>  $sql = "SELECT * FROM drives WHERE ddest = '{$trimmed}' AND 'leave_date' =&gt; DATE_FORMAT(CURDATE(), '%m/%d/%Y') LIKE '%$trimmed%' ORDER BY timeago DESC";
  </code></pre>