Comparing timestamp with date variable (MySQL and PHP)

Question

Any help is highly appreciated.

Say I have a MySQL database with a timestamp column with the value \"1305590400\", how can I compare that with a PHP variable of say

Answer 1

You could always convert the timestamp to a formatted date.

SELECT FROM_UNIXTIME(1358871753,'%Y %D %M');

Produces: 2013 22nd January