I would do $getnewstitle = "SELECT newstitle FROM `news` ORDER BY news_id DESC LIMIT 1"; This sorts the records by news_id and the limit 1 only returns the first record. On 6/14/05, twistednetadmin <twistednetadmin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am making a table at my homepage that automatically collects the > latest news from mysql db. > I have got it to work at my own server at home, but not at > www.torewestre.com <http://www.torewestre.com> (my remote site) > > Local settings:(WinXP Pro) Apache 2.0.54, PHP 5.0.4 and MySQL 4.1.11 > > Remote settings:(Unix) Apache 1.3.27, PHP 4.3.4 and MySQL 3.23.54 > > This is the query that works on localhost: > > > $getnewstitle = "SELECT newstitle FROM `news` WHERE news_id = ( SELECT > max( news_id ) FROM news ) "; > > What it does: > > collects the newstitle from the field where PRIMARY key(news_id) is > the highest auto_increment number. > > This works just as excpected on localhost but not on remote. > > Does anybody know the right syntax? > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
