How do I only select the last 5 rows of a table in a database?

IonCannon218

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I'm playing with a Program E for ALICE, I want the PHP script to display the last 5 lines in the conversation.

MySQL info: The database is 'alice', the table i want to get rows from is 'conversationlogs'. the columns to display are 'input', 'response' and 'uid'. I want the script to only display the log from the user id.
The script works completely fine, but I don't want the script to show the complete logs from everyone.

The particular code i'm asking for help is:
PHP:
// Print the last 5 lines in the conversation
 $query="SELECT * FROM conversationlog";
 $result = mysql_query($query);
 while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
 {
  echo '<b>You: </b>' . $row['input'] . '<br>';
  echo '<b>IonBot: </b>' . $row['response'] . '<br>';
 }
 echo '<b>You: </b>' . $HTTP_POST_VARS['input'] . '<br>';

The full script: (talk.php)
PHP:
<?php
/*
    Program E
 Copyright 2002, Paul Rydell
 This file is part of Program E.
 
 Program E is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.
    Program E is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with Program E; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
*/
/**
 * HTML chat interface
 * 
 * Contains the script that outputs the HTML interface for chatting
 * @author Paul Rydell
 * @copyright 2002
 * @version 0.0.8
 * @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License
 * @package Interpreter
 * @subpackage Responder
 */
 
/**
* Include the guts of the program.
*/
include "respond.php";
if (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['input'])){
 $numselects=0;
 // Start the session or get the existing session.
 session_start();
 $myuniqueid=session_id();
 // Print the last 5 lines in the conversation
 $query="SELECT * FROM conversationlog";
 $result = mysql_query($query);
 while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
 {
  echo '<b>You: </b>' . $row['input'] . '<br>';
  echo '<b>IonBot: </b>' . $row['response'] . '<br>';
 }
 echo '<b>You: </b>' . $HTTP_POST_VARS['input'] . '<br>';
 
 // Here is where we get the reply.
 $botresponse=replybotname($HTTP_POST_VARS['input'],$myuniqueid,$HTTP_POST_VARS['botname']);
 // Print the results.
 print "<br>";
 print "<B>IonBot: " . $botresponse->response . "<BR></b><br>";
 //print "<BR><BR>execution time: " . $botresponse->timer;
 //print "<BR>numselects= $numselects";
 //print_r($botresponse->inputs);
 //print_r($botresponse->patternsmatched);
 // Include a form so they can say more. Note the hidden part for people that do not have trans sid on but want non-cookie users to be able to use the system.
 
 
 ?>
 <html>
 <head>
 <title>Chat with IonBot</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <form name="form1" method="post" action="talk.php">
 <input type="hidden" name="<?=session_name()?>" value="<?=$uid?>">
 <input type="hidden" name="botname" value="<?=$HTTP_POST_VARS['botname']?>">
   Say: <input type="text" name="input" size="55">
   <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
 </form>
 </body>
 </html>
<?
}
else {
 $availbots=array();
 // Get all the names of our bots.
 $query="select botname from bots";
    $selectcode = mysql_query($query);
    if ($selectcode){
        if(!mysql_numrows($selectcode)){
        }
        else{
            while ($q = mysql_fetch_array($selectcode)){
                $availbots[]=$q[0];
            }
        }
    }
 ?>
 <html>
 <head>
 <title>Chat with IonBot</title>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 </head>
 <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
 <form name="form1" method="post" action="talk.php">
 Talk to: <select name="botname">
 <? 
 foreach ($availbots as $onebot){
  print "<option value=\"$onebot\">$onebot</option>";
 }
 ?>
 </select><BR>
   Input: <input type="text" name="input" size="55">
   <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
 </form>
 
 </body>
 </html>
 <?
}
?>
 

akkudreamz

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ya
and use ORDER BY to order according to the time the chats were sent and put a limit of 5
 

garrettroyce

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if you only want three columns, you can specify that too:

SELECT input, response, uid
FROM conversationlogs
ORDER BY time DESC
LIMIT 5
 

IonCannon218

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Thanks, how do I do the uid checking in php code?

I only want the rows that match the uid of the client.
 

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"SELECT input, response, uid
FROM conversationlogs
WHERE uid = $uid
ORDER BY time DESC
LIMIT 5"

you can call $uid whatever you want, just make sure it contains a valid uid :)
 

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You can remove the uid field from the query, as you already have it's value.
 
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