Re: [PHP-DB] date: reverse order

2003-02-04 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
when retrieving data from the db and displaying it on the page by creation date how can i reverse the order so that the most recent entry appears first? here's what i have now: ? require(config.php); $obj = mysql_db_query($dbname,select * from ads order by createdate); ? You

RE: [PHP-DB] date: reverse order

2003-02-04 Thread Hutchins, Richard
Simple MySQL. After your ORDER BY clause use either ASC (I think this is the default) or DESC. I'm pretty sure this'll work on date fields to produce the results you want. Your query will end up looking like: ...order by createdate DESC -Original Message- From: Addison Ellis

RE: [PHP-DB] date: reverse order

2003-02-04 Thread Addison Ellis
thank you... this worked. best, addison Simple MySQL. After your ORDER BY clause use either ASC (I think this is the default) or DESC. I'm pretty sure this'll work on date fields to produce the results you want. Your query will end up looking like: ...order by createdate DESC -Original