Re: Help for code to 'sort list' please

Thank you for replying again but I have already been on the Mysql.com website and although I did ascertain the correct syntax ie ORDER BY date_day, date_month, date_year desc ORDER BY date_day, date_year, date_month desc ORDER BY date_month, date_day, date_year desc ORDER BY date_month, date_year, date_day desc ORDER BY date_year, date_day, date_month desc ORDER BY date_year, date_month, date_day desc None of them work mainly because the months get listed alphabetically and not IN ORDER. For example AUGUST is listed as the first month because it started with 'A' The year and day being integers were listed correctly. Now do you see the problem. This is why Mysql.com was no good so I came to PHP for help. Thank you in advance to anyone ?? that can help. ---- Original Message ---- From: John Nichel Date: Mon 2/2/04 19:43 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Help for code to 'sort list' please EastLothianDirectory wrote: > Thank you for reply. I already have 'ORDER BY year desc'. > > But as I mentioned how do I get the months and day in order too on the same list. > > Thank you in advance <snip> Read the documentation for ORDER BY in MySQL. You can sort on multiple columns. Basically, you can 'ORDER BY year, month, day DESC' (my syntax may be off), and it order it by the year first, then like years will be ordered by month, etc. -- By-Tor.com It's all about the Rush http://www.by-tor.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php