Hi again, I got the MONTH() selection thing working now, but it seems like I'm not getting the hang of the concept with the sql date..
With PHP and a UNIX timestamp I would just insert a timestamp, the select it and after selection, go ahead and manipulate it to fit my needs, like extracting day names, months etc. With the sql date it seems that all manipulation with dates has to be done during selection. Which would make sense somehow, since it's a query language.. I'm just wondering, why I should use readable dates, if it's so much harder to get where I need to, instead of sticking to unix timestamps and manipulate these with PHP functions? What I want to do is: Select every row from the current month and year with: SELECT id, datecol, text FROM table WHERE MONTH(datecol) =$mySelectedMonth; then output the different parts of the date like: Monday, 10.05.2004 or do I have to get all this within the query? Thanks for your patience and time reading this rather long post and maybe offering some enlightening explanation? Regards, Holger -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
