one sql query for all count of posts each day

Question

I have been trying to make one generic query in which i'll get the (Count of number of posts being submitted each day (separately) in a respective month count(postid))

Like lets suppose month is january so query returns something like following.

Output from one sql query:

Day : Nummber of posts

1 5

2 3

3 9

and so on..

Kindly let me know what is a right way to do that or any other good generic alternative, I am trying to avoid making multiple queries to count post for each respective day.

Table Structure: ID | postid | post | date ID | postid | post | date

Select count(postid) from posts where month="JAN"

Answer 1

Without knowing how your DB is structured, a generic query woudl look something like this:

SELECT YEAR(postdate) AS year, MONTH(postdate) AS month,
    DAY(postdate) AS day, COUNT(postid) AS count
FROM posts
GROUP BY YEAR(postdate), MONTH(postdate), DAY(postdate)
ORDER BY year, month, day

Answer 2

Assuming you're using a date column type named nibbles :

SELECT DAY(nibbles) AS day, COUNT(*) AS post_count
FROM sparkles
WHERE YEAR(nibbles) = 2012 AND MONTH(nibbles) = 1
GROUP BY DAY(nibbles)

Update

Using OP's updated table structure...

SELECT DAY(`date`) AS day, COUNT(post_id) AS post_count
FROM sparkles
WHERE YEAR(`date`) = 2012 AND MONTH(`date`) = 1
GROUP BY DAY(`date`)