PHP and MySQL: Order by most recent date and limit 10

Question

I am building a notes system on my site and I\'ve got to the stage where users can post notes into the MySQL database using PHP and then PHP prints them out on a page. Howev

Answer 1

Do this

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM notes WHERE note_author_id='$u_id' ORDER BY date_time DESC LIMIT 0, 10");

Answer 2

give like

 ORDER BY date_time DESC

otherwise you are sorting them in ascending order.. thats why older ones come first

Answer 3

This should do it :

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM notes WHERE note_author_id='$u_id' ORDER BY date_time DESC LIMIT 0, 10");

Answer 4

use:

SELECT * FROM notes WHERE note_author_id='$u_id' ORDER BY date_time DESC LIMIT 10

DESC : descending order ( from newest to oldest ) LIMIT 10: first 10 records found.

Answer 5

Try

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM notes WHERE note_author_id='$u_id' ORDER BY date_time DESC LIMIT 10");

For a more detailed explanation on ORDER and LIMIT, visit the MySQL doc's articles about sorting rows and the basic select syntax (look for a bullet describing LIMIT).

Answer 6

If in case you want your LIMIT to be a variable, here I named it $limit:

"SELECT * FROM tbl ORDER BY input_date DESC LIMIT 0, $limit";