MYSQL select last 3 rows, order by ASC

Question

I just want to select the newest 3 comments on a post, and have them ordered in ASC order.

This selects the last 3 rows, however I need them in the reverse order:

mysql_query("
SELECT * FROM comments WHERE postID='$id' AND state='0' ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 3")

Answer 1

You can reverse sort it later.

SELECT * 
FROM (SELECT * FROM comments
      WHERE postID='$id' 
        AND state='0' 
      ORDER BY id DESC 
      LIMIT 3) t
ORDER BY id ASC;

Answer 2

This can also be done just in PHP, without modifying the SQL query, by simply iterating backwards through the result set:

$res = mysql_query(...);
for($i=mysql_num_rows($res)-1; $i>=0; $i--) {
    //do whatever
}

I confess I don't know what the performance difference is (if any), but it's just another option that might suite you.