Question

as the comments always have it, you can select to show the top 5 comments (which i know how) and if there is more than 5, you can click a link and it will show the following 5 comments. The problem is that i don’t know how the code should be for it to show the next 5.

Better idea of what i’m saying
Let’s say i have 10 comments, i use

SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY ID DESC
LIMIT 5

that will show the TOP 5 comments say, the comments with ID 10,9,8,7,6

but what if i want the comments with ID 5,4,3,2,1 ?

Answer 1

SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 5, 5

Assuming that you use MySQL, LIMIT supports two parameters, offset (optional) and row_count:

[LIMIT {[offset,] row_count | row_count OFFSET offset}]

The alternative way using OFFSET is for compatibility with PostgreSQL.