How to Create Articles Achive In Month PHP MYSQL

How to create articles achieve sort like this Articles (articleid (INT), articledate (DATETIME) )

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         <?php
                mysql_select_db($database_vcms, $vcms);
                $query_Articles2 = "SELECT DATE_FORMAT(NOW(),'%b %Y') as M,
COUNT(1) FROM articles 
GROUP BY M";
                $Articles2 = mysql_query($query_Articles2, $vcms) or die(mysql_error());
                $row_Articles2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Articles2);
                $totalRows_Articles2 = mysql_num_rows($Articles2);?>
                                      <?php do { ?>
<li><a href="?type=article&action=achive&id=<?php echo $row_Articles2['Month'];?>"><?php echo $row_Articles2['Month'];?>
<span class="badge pull-right"><?php
mysql_select_db($database_vcms, $vcms);
$query_CheckAr2Count =  "SELECT * FROM articles WHERE Year(articledate) = '$year' and MONTHNAME(articledate) = '$month'";
$CheckAr2Count = mysql_query($query_CheckAr2Count, $vcms) or die(mysql_error());
$row_CheckAr2Count = mysql_fetch_assoc($CheckAr2Count);
$totalRows_CheckAr2Count = mysql_num_rows($CheckAr2Count);

echo $totalRows_CheckAr2Count; ?></span>
</a></li>
<?php } while ($row_Articles2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Articles2)); ?>
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