ASK83 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Hi, I'm currently developing a message center on a site and I'm trying to make options for sorting by name or date. The date is simple, because there is a date time stamp in my message table, but the name is a bit more complicated.. The message table only stores a user_id, which I can use joins to retrieve the name when processing and echoing, but would it work the same with the ORDER BY syntax? And to throw a little a curve ball into the situation, there are two different message senders - users and the user's aliases (stored in another table aside from users) - so how would I go about separating and ordering the names when initially querying the message table? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Describe that "name" stituation in more detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASK83 Posted November 4, 2008 Author Share Posted November 4, 2008 There are two different ways the users can communicate - let's use this forum as a way to express this.. I can communicate by my login (ASK83), but let's say I was also trying to communicate to my neighbor who knows me by my first name (let's say John) - so I could send messages as my alias (ASK83) or my user (John). If that helps any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 OK... could you show me a query where this is an issue for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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