The MySQL manual will explain this in great detail.

To sort by date:
SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY date ASC;

for that to work, all the values in date should be a timestamp (ex:
20020520000000)

To sort by names:
SELECT  * FROM table ORDER BY name ASC;

If you want reverse the order, replace the 'ASC' with 'DESC'.

Tyler Longren
Captain Jack Communications
www.captainjack.com
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From: "Cleeker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:11 PM
Subject: [PHP] MySQL and sorting


> Is there a way to extract lets say a bunch of dates from a mysql db, and
> the sort them in order from newest to oldest? Also how would you sort
> names in alphabetical order?
>
> ~Cleeker
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