Question

I have the following query:

$query = "SELECT - AS -
         FROM -
         WHERE ID = '".$id."'
         ORDER BY 'PRIMARY' DESC
         LIMIT ".$start.", ".$limit."";

However, for some reason the query is always returned in ascending order, even though I have told it to order by descending.

I’m not exactly sure why this is happening. When I do the query via phpMyAdmin, it returns correctly, but the PHP query is not listing the results in descending order.

note: the -‘s in the query are names from my database that I have snipped. They are filled with the correct names in the actual query.

Answer 1

Use backticks instead of single quotes near PRIMARY

$query = "SELECT - AS -
         FROM -
         WHERE ID = '".$id."'
         ORDER BY `PRIMARY` DESC
         LIMIT ".$start.", ".$limit."";