Question

I need a task to be done in one query let me show u the structure of my table

NEWS

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news_id
news_date
news_topic
news_desc

What i want to do is display records like this

news_date
All news records Pertaining to same same date ……

for e.g

23 March , 2012
All news of 23 march like topic desc

22 March , 2012
All news of 22 march like topic desc

Answer 1

If you want to only pull out a certain days news then:

SELECT * FROM news WHERE DATE(news_desc) = '2012-03-23'

to filter for a specific topic

SELECT * FROM news WHERE DATE(news_desc) = '2012-03-23' AND news_topic LIKE "%topic%"

If you just want to order the data by date (so you can output in order

SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY DATE(news_desc) DESC;

SELECT * FROM news WHERE news_topic LIKE "%topic%" ORDER BY DATE(news_desc) DESC

For the php you could do something like:

$q = "SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY DATE(news_desc) DESC;"
$mysqlRes = mysql_query($q);
$currentDate = false;
while($row = mysql_fetch_object($mysqlRes)) {
  if($currentDate != $row->news_date) {
    echo $row->news_date."<br />";
    $currentDate = $row->news_date;
  }
  echo $row->news_topic."<br />";
}