Question

What I want to ask is how to select from database record and my php code able to sort previous date by date,which is what i want to display in my interface:

2011-10-01

2011-10-01

2011-10-01

something here..


2011-10-02

2011-10-02

something here..


2011-10-03

something here..

in my database some previous date got a lot duplicate date and some are only one record, so I need to sort it for make my interface more clear

here is my code(but it’s not work):

$Current = date("Y-m-d" ,strtotime("now"));

$query= mysql_query("SELECT date FROM staff WHERE date < '$Current'");
while($res=mysql_fetch_array($query)){
echo $res['date'];
echo "something here";
}

thanks

Answer 1

Can’t you simply use this?

SELECT `date` FROM staff WHERE `date` < NOW() ORDER BY `date`

or (if you need only different dates)

SELECT DISTINCT `date` FROM staff WHERE `date` < NOW() ORDER BY `date`