Question

How do I pull the latest x amount of entries from a mysql table and then display it in an html table, using PHP?

Answer 1

I assume your table looks something like this:

CREATE TABLE reviews {
    review_id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY,
    titleofreview TEXT,
    yourreview TEXT,
    [...]
    created DATETIME
}

So when you retrieve the latest four reviews, it would probably use a query that looks like this:

SELECT titleofreview, yourreview 
FROM reviews 
ORDER BY review_id DESC 
LIMIT 4

If you only use a date to order them, then replace review_id with created.

As for putting it in a table, here is a guide to making tables in HTML.