With PHP, how to retrieve items that match created month and year - php

Question

I'm using this code to retrieve news items from my MongoDB:
foreach (collection("news")->find(["created"=>$time]) as $news)
Now I would like to find only those news articles with "created" unix timestamp that matches specific month of the specific year, like April 2014.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers.
EDIT: Thank you all for your effort, and yes, it's unix timestamp.

Answer 1

How did you create the Unix Timestamp? How is it represented in the document?
Are you using the MongoDate type, or are you using an integer?
If you are using the MongoDate type then you need to construct MongoDate objects and use them for your $gte and $lt conditions
$article = array(
"title" => "My first article",
"content" => "This is good news",
"published" => new MongoDate(),
"author" => "Random guy on the internet",
);
$collection->insert($article);
$start = new MongoDate(strtotime("yesterday"));
$end = new MongoDate(strtotime("tomorrow"));
$cursor = $collection->find(array("ts" => array('$gt' => $start, '$lte' => $end)));
foreach($cursor as $article) {
var_dump($article);
}
See http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.mongodate.php for more info

Answer 2

you'll have build your own query:
SELECT * FROM news WHERE created >= $start_date AND created <= $end_date
where:
assuming created is unix timestamp, otherwise you should skip strtotime function
// first day of april 2014
$start_date = strtotime(date('2014-04-01'));
// last day of april 2014
$end_date = strtotime(date('2014-04-t'));

Answer 3

You could use DateTime::createFromFormat to create your timestamps.
$begin = DateTime::createFromFormat('!Y-m', '2014-04');
$end = clone $begin;
$end->modify('next month');
echo $begin->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'). PHP_EOL; // 2014-04-01 00:00:00
echo $end->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); // 2014-05-01 00:00:00
And build more complex condition.
collection("news")
->find(["created" => array(
'$gte' => $begin->getTimestamp(),
'$lt' => $end->getTimestamp())]);