Question

Anybody have any idea why this query isn’t working?

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Events ORDER BY ID ASC LIMIT 0, 10");

I want the data to order backwards, from the highest value ID all the way to 1.

But it doesn’t do that. It just orders them 1,2,3,4,5

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You are sorting in ASCending order when you want to sort in DESCending order. Try the following instead:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Events ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 0, 10");

If per chance, you want the 10 items with the lowest ID‘s but want them in descending order, then you could use the following:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM Events ORDER BY ID ASC LIMIT 0, 10) ORDER BY ID DESC");