echo in reverse order from mysql_fetch_assoc() - php

Question

Ok here's the trick.
In the query I'm getting the right results from a table named messages. (Its fetching the last 10 messages ordered by the time inserted in reversed order) here's the query:
$query = mysql_query("SELECT time, username, message
FROM messages ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 10");
And than later those messages are printed inside div via ajax with
while ($item = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
echo $item['time']." - ".$item['username']." - ".$item['message'];
}
But the printed result I want to print them only in the reversed order.
Tip: If I use ASC in the ORDER BY clause I don't get the last inserted messages.
Is this possible to do inside php?

Answer 1

Store your data & than use array_reverse,
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
$items[] = $row;
}
$items = array_reverse($items ,true);
foreach($items as $item){
echo $item['time']." - ".$item['username']." - ".$item['message'];
}

Answer 2

I would use a subquery personally. Im kinda anal about having my data come out of MySQL exactly how I want it, but the array_reverse method will work fine too. Here is my example:
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM (
SELECT time, username, message
FROM messages ORDER BY time
DESC LIMIT 10) result
ORDER BY time ASC
");

Answer 3

Use: array_unshift - Prepend one or more elements to the beginning of an array
$items = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
array_unshift($items,$row);
}
foreach($items as $item){
echo $item['time']." - ".$item['username']." - ".$item['message'];
}
Heres a useless but quick example. I hope it's still there: Simple example