Hi Joey, Thursday, July 26, 2007, 1:36:37 PM, you wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'mt trying to do the below query which itself works correctly, but when I > add a order by statement just bombs. > $query = "select * from articles where ( {$now} BETWEEN startdate > AND enddate) and categoryid = 1 limit 0,3"; > $query = "select * from articles order by startdate asc where ( > {$now} BETWEEN startdate AND enddate) and categoryid = 1 limit 0,3"; > This one just doesn't work, can you tell me what I have done wrong?? Err.. ORDER BY comes at the END of your query, not the start. SELECT * FROM blah WHERE blahblah ORDER BY y ASC LIMIT x,y Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk "Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window" -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php