Rick, I agree. <opinion>Row ids should be for internal database use. SQL frees us from needing them. </opinion>
Tyler, what order do you want these records returned in? That is what goes into the ORDER BY clause. If, for example, it is alphabetical order of NAME then use ORDER BY NAME. If it is the order in which people are entered into the database then I would either use a sequence and enter that into a "person_id" or "sequence" field, alternatively put a date/time stamp into a "person_entered_at" field. These result in ORDER BY PERSON_ID, ORDER BY SEQUENCE and ORDER BY PERSON_ENTERED_AT respectively. I'd narrow the question down to "what is it about first person, second person and third person that makes them first, second and third.". If we know that then I think we may be able to help better. Hope this helps. Regards Chris Rick Emery wrote: >The greater question: Why does irow order matter? What are you REALLY >trying to do? > >============== >In article <000701c1cb06$3b54f3b0$0101a8c0@nightengale>, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > >>Hello, >> >>How can I get the number of the current row, something like this: >> >><? >>$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY id DESC"); >>while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) { >> $id = $row["id"]; >> $name = $row["name"]; >> print "$current_row_number. $name<Br>"; >>} >>?> >>I can't just use the id field, because the ID's might not always be 1, 2, >> >3, > >>4, 5, 6, etc...they could go 1, 2, 4, 5, 8. >> >>I need it to look like this: >>1. first person >>2. second person >>3. third person >> >>and so on and so forth. >> >>Can anyone advise me on how I should do this? >> >>thanks, >>Tyler >> >> > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
