Question

So I just wrote this little script. The problem is I want the newest message at the bottom not at the top so some how I need to take the results from the mysql query and reorder them before echoing them out.. thanks for any help…

EDIT: DESC is the correct order the while loop is the problem.. since php runs line by line

p.s. please do not worry about security features I will add that in later.

<?php
mysql_connect('localhost', '', '');
mysql_select_db('');

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

    date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

    $_POST['username'] = 'Guest';
    //$_POST['message'] = "Hello my name is Guest!";

    mysql_query("INSERT INTO chat (username,message,date,time) VALUES ('".$_POST['username']."','".$_POST['message']."','".date('n.j.o g:i:s A')."','".time()."')");

}

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM chat ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 10");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    $username = $row['username'];
    $message = $row['message'];
    $date = $row['date'];

    echo "<div><b>".$username.":</b> ".$message." <i>".$date."</i></div>";
}
?>

<form method="post">
<input name="message" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send"/>
</form>
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Answer 1

You can easily reverse the order in PHP by first storing all the results and accessing them later:

<?php

$records = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    $records[] = $row;
}

$records = array_reverse($records);

foreach ($records as $row) {
    $username = $row['username'];
    $message = $row['message'];
    $date = $row['date'];

    echo "<div><b>".$username.":</b> ".$message." <i>".$date."</i></div>";
}