Re: ORDER BY is not sorting

From: Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:59:57 +0000
Subject: Re: ORDER BY is not sorting
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Well, it looks like you're trying to get your results in an array and run the query all at the same time. Also, I believe you need to put the variable in your SELECT statement inside of some single quotes. Try something like this: $query = "SELECT * FROM '$table_name' ORDER BY DESC"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); Then you can take your $result variable and output the data, put it into a loop, or select specific records. Hope that helps. On 7/31/07, Mark Abrams <mark@hospitalsystemsgroup.com> wrote: > > Sorry, this seams very trivial but I can not sort the result set for any > field. What am I doing wrong? > > > php & mySQL 5 > > > <?php > > ... > > $table_name ='users'; > > // Select records > $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $table_name ORDER BY rowID DESC"); > > > // Loop through the record set > while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { > print 'rowID =' .$row['rowID']. '<br />' > } > > ?> > > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > > > TIA > Mark > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >

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