> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 9:15 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [PHP-DB] Getting last row, moving backwards..
>
>
> I need some help selecting the last row in my database, and then
> moving backwards.. I can't just get mysql_num_rows and go back by
> 1, as some of the records are missing.. the ID field might have #'s
> like 1950, 1948, 1947, 1944, etc, and I don't want it to break by
> mistakingly trying to grab 1949.  Can someone provide some help or
> a link to where in the manual what I'm doing might be explained?
> Been searching, no luck yet.  Thanks!

Wouldn't it be easier to just get them from the database in the order that
you want?

In your example, something like

        select * from mytable order by id_field desc

would likely do the trick (sorting your results by the value of the ID
field, in descending order).


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