Re: [PHP] Sorting mySQL query - one order from multiple fields

2009-07-26 Thread George Langley
In case anyone else was wondering, the command to use is COALESCE() as in: $theQuery = mysql_query("select variousFields from theTable where date = '$currDate' ORDER BY COALESCE(rotime2,rotime1,time)"); COALESCE() will use "one" of the variables, being the one it finds a value for first,

[PHP] Sorting mySQL query - one order from multiple fields

2009-06-14 Thread George Langley
Hi all. Am trying to sort baseball games by time, where there can be up to 3 times listed per game. Each game has an original "date" and "time" field, plus fields for 2 rain-out dates/times ("rodate1" "rotime1", "rodate2", "rotime2"), to use if the game gets rained out. Note that rotime1 an