Question

I have a small self made gallery which im still working on it:
http://springbreak.enteratenorte.com

And the SQL structure is the following:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS 'en_albums' (
    'id' int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
    'name' text,
    'folder' text,
    'description' text,
    'hits' int(11) default NULL,
    'datecreated' date default NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY  ('id')
 ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=372 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=372 ;

And I have around 300 albums, so I would to sort the most popular which is simple with this query:

SELECT * FROM en_albums ORDER BY hits DESC

But I would like to know how can I do the same thing, but only sort album not older than 6 month, or 1 month, or 1 year, this is a sample of the lines in my albums:

INSERT INTO 'en_albums' 
  ('id', 'name', 'folder', 
   'description', 'hits', 'datecreated') 
VALUES 
 (1, 'Friends Picture', 'en-fotosdeamigos', 
  'Pictures sent by our visitors', 1514, '2005-07-19');

Thanks for the help! 😀

Answer 1

Assuming you only want to get albums created within a time period you can use

SELECT * FROM en_albums WHERE datecreated > DATE_SUB(NOW(),INTERVAL 6 MONTH) ORDER BY hits DESC 

This will only return items which have a datecreated greater than 6 months ago. You can change the 6 and MONTH part to be what you want. You can replace MONTH with any of the following:

• MICROSECOND
• SECOND
• MINUTE
• HOUR
• DAY
• WEEK
• MONTH
• QUARTER
• YEAR