Re: Select and order by question

Assuming you are using a version of a database that can support
sub-queries (MySQL 4.1 and up, Postgresql (all reasonably current
versions, any other robust RDBMS) you can do the query like this:

$sSql = "SELECT * FROM crm_events WHERE crm_leads_id IN (SELECT id FROM
crm_leads) AND follow_up_action!='' ORDER BY follow_up_date asc limit 1"

Not sure what your follow_up_action !=" is suppose to be doing but if
the rest works for you that should give you what you want.

Sherwin Harris

Web Developer

Brigham Young University

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From: pgsql-php-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-php-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Andy Dunlop
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 3:13 AM
To: pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [PHP] Select and order by question

Hi - I have the following code:

//show table of current events needing action
$sSql = "SELECT id FROM crm_leads ";
$sLeads = pg_exec($conn,$sSql);
for($e=0;$e<pg_numrows($sLeads);$e++){
$sSql = "SELECT * FROM crm_events WHERE crm_leads_id =
".pg_result($sLeads,$e,"id")." AND follow_up_action!='' ORDER BY
follow_up_date asc limit 1";
$sRes = pg_exec($conn,$sSql);
$sHits = pg_numrows($sRes);
if($sHits!=0){
for($i=0;$i<$sHits;$i++){
// generate the display here
}
}

crm_leads is a parent with many crm_events as it's children.
This code gives me the correct set of rows.
My problem is that I want only the last row from crm_events (as per
limit 1) but I want those rows sorted by follow_up_date. I guess I need
to have the whole query in one select statement? But how?

Any help appreciated
Thanks

Andy Dunlop

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