Question

I want to fetch the last result in MySQL database table using PHP. How would I go about doing this?

I have 2 Columns in the Table, MessageID(auto) & Message.

I already know how to connect to the database.

Answer 1

Use [mysqli_query][1]:

<?php
$sql = 'SELECT messageid, message FROM table ORDER BY messageid DESC LIMIT 1';
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);

//print value to screen
$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
echo $row['messageid'];
echo $row['message'];

The SQL query:

SELECT t.messageid, t.message 
FROM table t 
ORDER BY t.messageid DESC 
LIMIT 1

…uses the ORDER BY to set the values so the highest value is the first row in the resultset. The LIMIT says that of all those rows, only the first is actually returned in the resultset. Because messageid is auto-increment, the highest value is the most recent one…