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PHP Integrating PHP with Databases Limiting Records in SQL LIMIT and OFFSET

Posted by Nathaniel Lozada
Nathaniel Lozada
4,002 Points

Cannot answer PHP Limit question correctly

I need to display the second page, items 11-20, but for some reason it keeps telling me I am getting it wrong. The directions are as follows:

"In a library database there's a books table. There's a title, author, genre and first_published column.

The library database is connected to a website displaying 10 books at a time, sorted by the title alphabetically.

Write a query to bring back the second page of results."

Source code (Only had to type SQL code):

SELECT title, author, genre, first_published

FROM books

ORDER BY title

LIMIT 10, 10

Alternatively:

SELECT title, author, genre, first_published

FROM books

ORDER BY title

LIMIT 10 OFFSET 10

I have tried this and many other combinations, and gotten nowhere.

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points

It appears the checker wants you to use SELECT *. Although not in the instructions there is also an id column. That with your second SQL statement will work.

Nathaniel Lozada
Nathaniel Lozada
4,002 Points

Thank you. I suppose the directions were not clear enough- they should have said that there was an id column. If any staff are looking at this, please update the instructions.