Date extraction of a months data at one go

Hello Everyone

THE STORY
In August last year I started to build a community website.  By November
I started to learn PHP in order to build an interactive section to deal
with the bookings for the Village Hall, I know I may be able to buy one,
but it's more fun to learn PHP etc.

THE INTRO
Now I'm really moving really slowly through a problem.  Part one of the
interactive booking site is a front end calendar and backend booking
engine to show when the hall is free.

Data is held in a MySQL table called calendar, the booking engine (yet to
be written) will take each booking and will see if the day exists, if it
does exist it will see it the time band is free and act accordingly
otherwise it will create the day and book the time band.

So, the first field is a unique index date field yyymmdd, followed by the
six available time bands (set to 0) which will one day hold the
customer's unique number and will give a pictorial overview (I hope.)
See http://www.hagleyvillage.org/hca_si..._diary_root.htm
for a mock-up of the desired finished product.

THE PROBLEM
To reduce processing time I wish to extract all entries for a given month
in date order before I print the results out (in date order) with
something along the lines of an if hall_8to12 > 0 echo BOOKED statement.

THE QUESTION
What SQL query do I get the data into the results array with?
$result = MYSQL_QUERY( "SELECT * FROM $table WHAT THE DEVIL GOES IN
HERE");?
My other variables are $dbdate which holds the date of the first day of
the month in SQL date format and $days_in_month which is self
explanatory.

Thanks for looking, I hope I've explained the problem clearly.

Nick
Email address is on the website.