assuming you are using a date format field, you can do something like (not
tested, please check syntax!)
$SQL = "SELECT text FROM events WHERE date < " . date("Y-m-d") . " SORT BY
date DESC LIMIT 1";
good luck
Beau
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// From: Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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// Subject: [PHP-DB] Upcoming event script
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// I'm sorta new at php, as most of my experience is in
// ASP...so I need a
// little help.
//
// I am making a "next upcoming event" script. Basically, I
// want to be able to
// put into mysql a description of the even and a date where
// the posting should
// start, and I want to be able to make it show the most
// recently passed post
// date. So in other words, if today is June 1 2002, and I have
// 3 records with
// post dates of May 28, March 22, and June 13 of that year, I
// want it to show
// the May one. How do I sort this? I know that in ASP it would
// be "SELECT text
// FROM events WHERE date < " & now() & "SORT BY date DESC",
// but how do I do it
// in php?
//
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