Or you could retrieve that information prior to inserting the login information, say, as soon as they type in their login name, store that, then present it.


From: Jason Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Harlequin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Retrieve The Last Record in a Table
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:17:19 -0700

You could LIMIT 2, using the order on a column, the first record would
be last, the second would be second last.  Kinda dirty way to do it,
however, off hand, cant think of an alternative, ill post it if i do
think of one though.

Jason

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:59:21 +0100, Harlequin
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> Thanks for that Jason
>
> Any suggestions on how I would retrieve the next to last entry...? The last
> time prior to this session that the user logged in...?
>
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> > as mentioned already, use a column in the table to order the query and
> > then use LIMIT to only to return one record. Best columns to use would
> > be an auto_increment or a datetime field type.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:27:25 +0100, Harlequin
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I would like to retrieve the last entry in a login table and present
> that to
> > > a user so they can verify the date we have when they last logged in.
> > >
> > > Is this possible...?
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