Question

I have the following table:

**id**         **username**         **activity**
1              user1                  activity-like
2              user1                  activity-share
3              user3                  activity-like
4              user4                  activity-like
5              user1                  activity-share
6              user6                  activity-like
8              user1                  activity-share
9              user3                  activity-like
10             user5                  activity-share

(Note: there is no id = 7)

I am trying to use php-mysql to fetch the activity made by user1 and get the id. In this case the activities have the id (1, 2, 5, and 8).

$currentId = 5;

I want to get the next and previous ids if they exist (in this case 2 and 8).

$fetch = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `main` WHERE `username` = 'user1' AND id > '$id'");
if(mysql_num_rows($fetch) == 1){
while (){

}
$result = $fetch['id'];
}

I am not sure how to write the query for that.

Answer 1

You can do something like this:

For next id,

SELECT id from tablename where username = 'user1' AND id > $currentId ORDER BY ID ASC LIMIT 1;

For previous id,

SELECT id from tablename where username = 'user1' AND id < $currentId ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 1;