How to sort rows of HTML table that are called from MySQL

Question

I know it\'s such a basic thing, but a Google search hasn\'t shown me how to re-sort the rows after clicking the th links.

I\'ve got this:

Answer 1

The easiest way to do this would be to put a link on your column headers, pointing to the same page. In the query string, put a variable so that you know what they clicked on, and then use ORDER BY in your SQL query to perform the ordering.

The HTML would look like this:

Type:
Description:
Recorded Date:
Added Date:

And in the php code, do something like this:

Notice that you shouldn't take the $_GET value directly and append it to your query. As some user could got to MyPage.php?sort=; DELETE FROM MyTable;