filter by year or month from mysql datetime cakephp

Question

I have a table in a database in a CakePHP application that has a date field. The datatype of that field is DATETIME. So it shows like this in the table:

2013-08-10 13:34:45

I would like to add a condition in a find() query to filter by year or by month. To filter by year, I can use the LIKE condition to do something like:

$condition = array(
    'MyModel.date LIKE' => '%2013%'
);

But how can I filter by months? the approach above will not work because I can have for example something like this as a date:

2013-12-11 11:11:11

If I do LIKE '%11%', my results will be wrong because the month of the previous date is actually November (or december if you live in Canada). So, how can I add a condition on the date field of my table to filter by the correct month?

Thanks in advance for any help

Answer 1

WHERE MONTH(date)=6    // June

You can also use the YEAR function

WHERE YEAR(date) =2013

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