On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:15:51PM -0500, Mike Szumlinski wrote:
Thanks to all that answered my last 5 or so devel questions. I
have a new one. I'm creating a new table that I want to use as a
"what's new" storage container, so it will basically have just a
timestamp, a poster name, and the message data. I want to sort
these things on the page with the most recent date first. Normally
I do this in php:
$query = mysql_query("SELECT date_format(dateadded, '%M %d, %Y') AS
Readable_Date from mytable",$db);
And then:
while ($daterow = mysql_fetch_row($query))
{printf("$daterow[0]<br>")}
This prints out the dates of my entries in chronological order,
from oldest to newest. Does anyone know how to do this? Am I just
an idiot and using poor poor poor coding methodology (probably).
Thanks again to all that have been helping me here.
You are headed on the right track... use a timestamp field that will
default to the current time upon insert/update.
You can then do something like "SELECT data FROM table ORDER BY
timestamp"
Dennis