Question

I’m using a row to return all of the users for a particular project, which isn’t a problem. However, how would I order it so that the first result is always the logged in user.

I see two solutions, both of which I’ve tried with no success:

1. Printing the user’s name then using an if statement to only print the rest of the row if they are different from the user’s name.

   print user's name;
   if (username !== user's name) {
       print this name;
   }
   

2. Printing them all in a row but ordering it somehow so that the current user is at the top.

Any ideas?

EDIT

I’m trying it now with the following code:

$query7 = mysql_query("SELECT users_ID FROM projects_users WHERE projects_id = '$id' AND WHERE users_id <>'$q6[0]'") or die(mysql_error());

But I get the error:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE users_id <>'1'' at line 1

I’ve tried != and NOT instead of <> but I can’t see what’s going wrong!

Never mind, fixed it. For future reference, don’t sure WHERE twice 😉

Thanks for your help everyone.

Answer 1

You first solution is perfect.

If you want to use your second solution you should build your SQL query like this:

(SELECT * FROM user WHERE id = :currentUserID) UNION (SELECT * FROM user)

And you are good