[PHP-DB] mysql ORDER BY problems

2006-06-18 Thread Rob W.
Ok, here's what i got in my mysql db. I got a table listed with numbers as follows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 25 These numbers I can display fine. I'm using .. $query=SELECT * FROM db ORDER BY numbers ASC; Right now it displays it as 1 10 11 12 . 2 22 23 25

[PHP-DB] re: mysql ORDER BY problems

2006-06-18 Thread J. Alejandro Ceballos Z. -JOAL-
are they defined as integer or varchars (string)? try a) exchange field definition varchar / integer b) order by length(number) and later by number -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP-DB] mysql ORDER BY problems

2006-06-18 Thread Bastien Koert
if you have these as strings, I would recommend a column data type conversion to int(or other numeric as the case may be)failing that I would use the CAST command to convert the data to numerics see here http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/cast-functions.html to use select