Select only month from timestamp in mysql query to archive articles by month

[IBEEHBK1]

Hi. I am a beginner in MySQL and have a question. I've used the same code to return all rows in the database table. Now I want to specify criteria for the date column (timestamp) to only return articles in that specified month.

Here is my query:

$query ="SELECT entrytitle, entrytext, entryurl, ";
$query.=" DATE_FORMAT(entrydate, '%M %d, %Y ' '-' ' %l:%i%p') AS date";
$query.=" FROM blog ORDER BY entrydate DESC LIMIT $startrow, $display";
$result=mysql_query($query);


I've been researching and playing around w/ the code for about 2 days. I guess I want something along the lines of this:

$query.=" DATE_FORMAT(entrydate, '%M') AS date WHERE entrydate = $month ";

However, that doesn't seem to be working. Maybe that's complete wrong or maybe it's syntax...I don't know.

This is specified earlier in the code (in case you're wondering):
$month = $_GET["month"];
$year= $_GET["year"];


I really want to do this in MySQL query because it's suppose to be much easier than doing all the conversions in PHP.

I will greatly appreciate your time and any help given.

[Nihiliste]

At this time, sorry but some reasons, I won't be able to do more ...

You stated that you want filter the date column, to get only the one in the specified month. But of what I see, you don't have any WHERE clause that reflect this requirement ...

Maybe you should rethink the:

$query.=" DATE_FORMAT(entrydate, '%M %d, %Y ' '-' ' %l:%i%p') AS date";

And put it in a WHERE clause in your query, that will fit your needs ...

[IBEEHBK1]

I know that's where my problem is as stated in the previous post. I would someone to help me figure out what to put there. I've been working on this for a couple of days before I resorted to coming here and asking for help. If anybody could give me an example of what to put there, please help. Thanks in advance.

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$display = (abs((int)$display > 0)) ? abs((int)$display) : 25;

$query = sprintf('SELECT entrytitle, entrytext, entryurl, "that was easy" FROM blog
WHERE YEAR(entrydate) = %d 
AND MONTH(entrydate) = %d
ORDER BY entrydate DESC
LIMIT %d, %d', $_GET['year'], $_GET['month'], $startrow, $display); 

[IBEEHBK1]

Thanks for the response! Let me try that right now.

[eval(BadCode)]

Forget the limit offset and hard code it as 0.

Unless there's some good reason to be changing it; it makes no sense and it's 1 more thing to break.

edit: nevermind, you don't display all of the blog posts on 1 page.

[Dasher]

This is what I do in my blog;

$query = "SELECT ID, Title, Category, Priority, Sticky, Author, More, Introtext,UCASE( DATE_FORMAT(Publish_Up,'%b %d, %Y %l:%i %p'))AS publishDate, Publish_Dwn, URLS 
FROM content 
WHERE Category = 1 AND Publish_Up <= DATE_ADD(NOW(),INTERVAL 1 HOUR) 
AND (Publish_Dwn > DATE_ADD(NOW(),INTERVAL 1 HOUR) OR Sticky=1) 
AND Priority > 0  
ORDER BY sticky DESC, priority ASC, id DESC LIMIT ".$show; 

The Publish_Up date is the date you want it to appear, it can be now or in the future.

The Publish_Dwn Date is the 1st day of next month; i.e. 2011-02-01 00:00:00

I have other entries whose Publish_Dwn date are 2 days after an event. -- An event expired.

I have a column in the table to know when to take down the article. Most come down at the end of the month. If tagged sticky they stay up until un-stickied.