Reversing the order of displayed data from a SELECT query - php

Question

My website (thanks to help from many of you here on SO) is set up to display a fixed number of updates (52) where each Friday, one rotates out, and a new one rotates in. The 52 updates are displayed 4 per page across 13 pages. It works perfectly.
However, the new update appears at the END of the displayed updates. I would like the new update to be the first one people will see.
Here is my query:
$conn = dbConnect('query');
$updates = "SELECT update_id, update_title, update_desc, path
FROM updates
WHERE flag_live = ?
ORDER BY update_id DESC
LIMIT ?, ?";
$stmt = $conn->prepare($updates);
$stmt->bind_param('sii', $uLive, $offset, $limit);
$stmt->bind_result($uId, $uTitle, $uDesc, $uPath);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->store_result();
$stmt->fetch();
I want the items to display in reverse order as they currently do. If I change the ORDER BY from DESC to ASC it picks a different set of data which I do not want. Thus, from my research I have seen that either array_reverse() or rsort would do the trick. I need to know what syntax is correct to use array_reverse() properly here.

Answer 1

I don't get along well with PHP, but something like this?
$results = $stmt->fetchAll();
$results = array_reverse( $results );
foreach ($results as $row)
{
/* $row will contain each row in the reversed array one at a time. do your usual process-one-row logic here */
}
Btw, when you don't know what a PHP function returns when you call it, there is a very useful debugging function, var_dump. You can call it on anything and it'll print what it's composed of, recursively.
http://au1.php.net/manual/en/function.var-dump.php

Answer 2

Maybe try something like this:
$results = $stmt->fetchAll();
$results = array_reverse( $results );
The next part can be done a few different ways so it really depends on how you are going to use the results and paginate them.
You could use a for loop: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.for.php
Or foreach: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php

Answer 3

Okay, after a lot of headbanging, I was able to accomplish this task, though not in a manner that I had considered when I posted this question. What I ended up doing was writing a subquery which allowed me to reverse the order of the updates displayed on each page, and as you'll know, this only reverses the order of the four updates visible on the page, NOT the overall order of the 52 chosen (see original question).
The next step was to 'reverse' my pagination system...no small task...rewriting logic, testing code, etc. So by reversing things with a subquery and reversing my pagination, I achieved my goal.
All of your suggestions her helped with the final outcome, though not in a way expected. I apologize in advance if this is not as concise as answering my own question should be.