ORDER_BY date LIMIT 1 [duplicate]

Answer 1

Jack's answer shows you how to use prepared statements correctly. Here is the code to simplify the date calculation using DATEDIFF().

$note = "SELECT *, DATEDIFF(NOW(), `date`) AS date_diff
         FROM notify 
         WHERE seeker=:seeker AND donor=:donor
         ORDER_BY `date` DESC
         LIMIT 1";

$st = $conn->prepare($note);
$st->execute(array(
    ':seeker' => $_SESSION['email'],
    ':donor' => $email,
);

$row = $st->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
// do something with $row