Question

I have a datetime var:

string(19) "2012-09-14 00:00:00"

I want to find the 5 rows in the table that are before this datetime.

How could I do this?

$db->query("SELECT id, title FROM news WHERE datetime < " . $db->escape($datetime) . ");

The above does not appear to work.

Im using mySQL.

Answer 1

Enclose by quote datetime value and enclose by backtick datetime column name.

$db->query("SELECT id, title FROM news WHERE `datetime` < '" . $db->escape($datetime) . "' order by `datetime` desc limit 5");