Question

I have a database with nearly 100 fields.
DB structure is

id | comment | time

I need to fetch only 5 newest record (I can get those records using ORDER by time DESC). But while printing them I need to print the oldest of those 5 records first and proceed in reverse in a way that the newest record will be printed last.

Answer 1

Ok, after fetching result set in ascending order with a limit of number of rows

you can do this to print them in reverse order (descending order)

$data= array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    $data[] = $row;
}

$records = array_reverse($data);

OR

This could be done with mysql_data_seek

Directly taken from here

for ($i = mysql_num_rows($resultset) – 1; $i >= 0; $i–) {
    mysql_data_seek($resultset, $i);
    $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
    echo $row['abc'] . ' ' . $row['xyz'] . "\n";
}