| Query database for previous dated event
Please help me find my way! |
MikeElmore
msg:4336174 | 4:46 am on Jul 7, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Ok so here is the deal:
I have a page that displays details for (event A). at the end of the details I want to check if there is an event occurring before event A's date. If there is I want to display a link to event B but I can't figure out how to do this.
This is what I have:
$prev_search = "SELECT title FROM events WHERE date < " . strtotime($event_data['date']);
$find_event = mysql_query($prev_search);
if (mysql_num_rows($find_event) != 0)
{
$prev_event = mysql_fetch_array( $find_event );
echo "<a class=\"readmore\" href=\"" . $base_url . "events/" . str_replace(" ", "_", $prev_event['title']) . "\">« Previous Event</a>";
}else{}
Which works in only displaying the "previous" button if there is an event before this one, but i want it to only display the previous date. you get what Im saying?
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brotherhood of LAN
msg:4336310 | 12:00 pm on Jul 7, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Mike, welcome to the forums
Try: SELECT MAX(date),title
Instead of: SELECT title
This will invariably return one row with the 'largest' timestamp.
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