[thelist] SELECTing and auto_increment field

[Andrew Forsberg]

>  > Wouldn't it just be a
>>
>>  SELECT  id, whatever_else, unix_timestamp(your_col)  AS time
>>  FROM your_table
>>  ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 1
>
>I dunno. Would it? If so, boy do I feel dumb. Okay, then what would you do
>to use that last timestamp in the (assumed) array? In other words, you've
>sorted the results, now how do you say "gimme the biggest one"?

Well after my faux pas with mysql_insert_id() I can at the least 
*try* to make up for it! The LIMIT 1 would return only the latest 
entry, ie: the column with the largest timestamp. So just add 
whatever else to the SELECT statement that you need to retrieve 
(user_id, column_this, column_that, column_blue, column_red, etc...).

>  > I'm not hot enough with sql to even
>>  think the above would work without testing;
>
>Me neither. That's why I'm on this list.

Jumping molehills! Jumping mountains! Hurray for evolt.org!

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