compare date

i am looking for a way to check if a serie of record from my DB is in a periode of dates.

for example i want to select all records between 01-01-01 and
31-12-01

does anybody know how to code this in PHP ????

thanx

use the BETWEEN SQL keyword, like this:

SELECT dates
FROM   mytable
WHERE  dates BETWEEN '2002-01-20'
AND   '2002-09-20'

thanx