Display posts in order from newest to oldest by date?

[Epicballzy]

I have a posting system worked out, as well as my database configured to my linking.. But as of right now, my posts are posted from oldest to newest, having users scroll down or go to the next page to see the most recent post.

 

How would I "flip" that around and make my posts start from newest to oldest by its date/time (Which is stored in the database)?

 

Thanks!

[trq]

ORDER BY fld DESC

[Epicballzy]

ORDER BY fld DESC

 

I have added the ORDER BY, but nothing has changed. The way I'm displaying the data, is using a while loop, gathering everything about the row in the database, and displaying select fields from an array. Would that have an affect on the ODER BY?

 

This is what I do:

$sql2 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM posts $limit");//$limit if for my pagination
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql2)) {
					
	$post_data = $row;
				
	$title = $post_data['title'];
	$content = $post_data['content'];
	$author = $post_data['author'];
	$post_id = $post_data['post_id'];?>

        //Then I add the variable in divs/header tags
}

[trq]

There is no ORDER BY clause in that code.

[ginerjm]

Where is the order by?

[Epicballzy]

There is no ORDER BY clause in that code.

I was just stating that that's how I do it. Not with the ORDER BY.

Here's how I did it with the ORDER BY:

$sql2 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY date DESC $limit"); 

DESC or no DESC.. It hasn't worked.

[Frank_b]

what field type did you use to store the date in your database?

 

it should be a date or datetime type.

[ginerjm]

I'm guessing that you have an sql error.  Date is probably a reserved word.  Enclose it in back-ticks.

[Barand]

I'm guessing that you have an sql error.  Date is probably a reserved word.  Enclose it in back-ticks.

Why guess when you can look it up?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/reserved-words.html

 

 

MySQL permits some keywords to be used as unquoted identifiers because many people previously used them. Examples are those in the following list:

• ACTION

• BIT

• DATE

• ENUM

• NO

• TEXT

• TIME

• TIMESTAMP