Question

I am trying the following but get no results:

SELECT *
FROM users_test
WHERE dateadded >= UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2012-02-01 00:00:00') 
AND dateadded <  UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2012-11-01 00:00:00');

Yet I know there are columns with dates within that range e.g.

2012-05-11 17:10:08

Is there a better way to do this?

Eventually I want to search multiple parameters, albeit not at the same time, like today, yesterday, last week, last month etc and also a date range and month range

Answer 1

Have you tried?

SELECT *
FROM users_test
WHERE dateadded >= '2012-02-01 00:00:00'
AND dateadded <  '2012-11-01 00:00:00'

For what I can see, it seems your table has the data stored in the same way you want to look for it (2012-05-11 17:10:08), so in this case you won’t need UNIX_TIMESTAMP.

Also I can see you want to exclude the 2nd date from results (because you’re using < instead of <=), otherwise using WHERE dateadded BETWEEN '2012-02-01 00:00:00' AND '2012-11-01 00:00:00' would be fine as well…