Question

I have a table which stores a php timestamp as a interger. I need to access this data by date and year. I can grab the year and match it with a column row that exists within the table but need to obtain the month name from the timestamp.

Code so far

$query="SELECT * FROM archive_agent_booking
    WHERE agent_id='$account_no'
    AND (MONTHNAME(comp_date)='$month' AND year='$year' AND details='')
    ORDER BY order_time";

unfortunately this is returning nothing.

comp_date is the column that contains the timestamps

Answer 1

you need to convert it to date first using FROM_UNIXTIME

MONTHNAME(FROM_UNIXTIME(comp_date)) = '$month'

• FROM_UNIXTIME()

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• How to prevent SQL injection in PHP?