> I am looking for some automatation using MYSQL and PHP: All entries in a > table have a date-field, so that our user are automatically informed > about the last update of the corresponding entry, but not about the > site's generall update. The idea is to look into the date-fields, select > the latest entry and printing it into HTML (we make our updates only > using the database, so one of our entries, but not always the last one, > has the correct date). So we have the table: > > entry 1 / 2000-11-29 > entry 2 / 2001-09-02 > entry 3 / 2001-11-04 > entry 4 / 2001-11-03 > > Obviously the second date's enrtry should be selected, but I have no > idea how to do it...
If you only need that 3rd entry (ie the latest date's record) a simple SELECT columns FROM table ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 1; will provide you with the record with the latest date (of course you can add a where clause to tell MySQL which records should be even considered for selection) Sincerely, Craig Vincent -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
