Hey Melissa. Will your articles always had a certain number (for each section) each month? If so a ORDER BY and LIMIT would work.
Daniel > I am trying to query a table that consists of e-news artilces. in the > table > are the following fields: ID, sortBy, datePublished, title, description. > You can see a fake sample of this at: www.aiaky.org/articles.htm > > I have the following $query on the actual e-news page: > > $query_rsENews = 'SELECT * FROM NewsArchive WHERE datePublished >= > DATE_FORMAT(NOW(), "%Y-%m-01") ORDER BY sortBy ASC'; > > what this is doing is returning only those records whose 'datePublished' = > the current mont. > > it works great...but....there's always a butt...... > > i really need it to return those records of the most recent date, as the > most recent date might be last month and there may be no records for this > month...leaving my page blank. Is there a way to do this? > > so many of you have already gotten me to this point...thanks!!!!!! > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php