Format date in MySQL to return MonthName, Year

Question

I have rows in a table that I need to order by date. Easy enough, use the date datatype to store them, ORDER BY date blah blah.

However, I\

Answer 1

try this

$sql = "SELECT DATE_FORMAT(`date`,\'%M %Y\') AS showdate FROM `allowances`";

Answer 2

Try this

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(`date`,'%M %Y') AS showdate FROM table

Use this site http://www.mysqlformatdate.com/ to get the (mysql) date format you want

Answer 3

Try this in php:

<?=format_date($column_name['date'],"M, Y")?>

Answer 4

In SQL you could get

SELECT year(DBDate), month(DBDate) FROM dates ORDER BY DBDate

Answer 5

You can get date year and monthName formate using the following query.

SELECT DATE_FORMAT("2017-06-15", "%Y %M") as 'Date';

If you need other formats apply following combinations.

Syntax: DATE_FORMAT(date, format_mask)

Format  Description
%a  Abbreviated weekday name (Sun to Sat)
%b  Abbreviated month name (Jan to Dec)
%c  Numeric month name (0 to 12)
%D  Day of the month as a numeric value, followed by suffix (1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...)
%d  Day of the month as a numeric value (01 to 31)
%e  Day of the month as a numeric value (0 to 31)
%f  Microseconds (000000 to 999999)
%H  Hour (00 to 23)
%h  Hour (00 to 12)
%I  Hour (00 to 12)
%i  Minutes (00 to 59)
%j  Day of the year (001 to 366)
%k  Hour (0 to 23)
%l  Hour (1 to 12)
%M  Month name in full (January to December)
%m  Month name as a numeric value (00 to 12)
%p  AM or PM
%r  Time in 12 hour AM or PM format (hh:mm:ss AM/PM)
%S  Seconds (00 to 59)
%s  Seconds (00 to 59)
%T  Time in 24 hour format (hh:mm:ss)
%U  Week where Sunday is the first day of the week (00 to 53)
%u  Week where Monday is the first day of the week (00 to 53)
%V  Week where Sunday is the first day of the week (01 to 53). Used with %X
%v  Week where Monday is the first day of the week (01 to 53). Used with %X
%W  Weekday name in full (Sunday to Saturday)
%w  Day of the week where Sunday=0 and Saturday=6
%X  Year for the week where Sunday is the first day of the week. Used with %V
%x  Year for the week where Monday is the first day of the week. Used with %V
%Y  Year as a numeric, 4-digit value
%y  Year as a numeric, 2-digit value

Answer 6

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(date_col, '%M, %Y')
FROM   tbl
-- WHERE ??
ORDER  BY date_col;

The manual knows more about that.