PHP/MYSQLi - Display last date query - php

Question

My database table have 5 columns: 'id', 'date_visited', 'page_title', 'ip' and 'total_views'.
I am not able to display ORDER BY 'date_visited'.
My PHP Query is:
<?php
[...]
$query = "SELECT *,count(*) FROM table WHERE ip GROUP BY page_title";
$result = mysqli_query($link,$query) or die(mysqli_error($link). "Q=".$query);
if(!$result == 0) {
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
$dataList_br .= '<tr>
<td>' .$row['date_visited']. '</td>
<td>' .$row['page_title']. '</td>
<td>' .$row['count(*)']. '</td>
</tr>';
}
} else {
$dataList_br .= '<p class="warning">No data found in database.</p>';
}
?>
When it outputs, it displays [date][page title] and [total views].
Please someone help me, how do I display last date from the query, instead now it displays the very first day the page was visited.
Thank you.

Answer 1

MySQL is lenient about the contents of the GROUP BY and will return a row for the group somewhat arbitrarily if columns aren't in the GROUP BY but are SELECTed. In your case, it just gave you the first row (lowest date) for each group.
Get the page_name of the row with the MAX(date_visited) per group and join that against the main table to pull in the remaining columns from the main table.
SELECT
table.id,
table.ip,
table.total_views,
maxdates.date_visited,
maxdates.page_name,
maxdates.thecount
FROM
table
JOIN (
/* Subquery returns the aggregates to join against
the main table so other columns can be pulled in */
SELECT
page_title,
MAX(date_visited) AS maxdate,
COUNT(*) AS thecount
FROM table
GROUP BY page_title
) maxdates
ON table.page_name = maxdates.page_name
AND table.date_visited = maxdates.maxdate

Answer 2

You want to use ORDER BY. Like so:
$query = "SELECT *, count(*)
FROM table
WHERE ip
GROUP BY page_title
ORDER BY date_visited ASC";

Answer 3

Try this whit "ORDER BY":
$query = "SELECT date_visited, page_title,count(*) FROM table WHERE ip ORDER BY page_title ASC";
$result = mysqli_query($link,$query) or die(mysqli_error($link). "Q=".$query);
if(!$result == 0) {
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
$dataList_br .= '<tr>
<td>' .$row['date_visited']. '</td>
<td>' .$row['page_title']. '</td>
<td>' .$row['count(*)']. '</td>
</tr>';
}
} else {
$dataList_br .= '<p class="warning">No data found in database.</p>';
}