MySQL - how to show the latest topic per thread

Question

I am trying to create SQL for retrieveing a list of latests posts for the forum thread. I have the following code:

SELECT
 item_discuss_thread_id
 , item_dis         


        

Answer 1

Try this.

SELECT
  *
FROM
  (SELECT item_discuss_thread_id, item_discuss_post_title, COUNT(item_discuss_thread_id) AS nb_posts
   FROM item_discuss_posts
   ORDER BY __datecolumn__)
  AS ordered_by_date
GROUP BY
  ordered_by_date.item_discuss_thread_id

Replace __datecolumn__ with the column that stores posting time.