Question

So, what I’m trying to do is pretty much the same as what this website does each posting is given an id, and the posting with the highest id is displayed first, then the posting with the second highest is displayed second, etc, etc…

Is it something like;

<a href="posting.php?id=<?php echo max(*something goes here*) ?>

Any help appriciated

Answer 1

This is probably something that you should be doing in your SQL when you are fetching the data from the database. You can do it quite easily using an order by statement in your query like this:

select 
    postID, 
    postTitle, 
    postAuthor 
from 
    posts 
where 
    someCondition=something 
order by 
    postID desc

In this way, you are already pulling the data out of the database without having to do any ordering or structuring in your PHP code – the database will be more efficient than PHP for this.