Hey that sounds like a great way to do it.  Thanks Simon!

On Dec 1, 10:13 am, Simon J Welsh <[email protected]> wrote:
> One way would be to add a column to the table, say Order, with values from 1 
> to max. Then, using a crontab or some such, UPDATE Stores SET Order = Order - 
> 1; UPDATE Stores Set Order = MAX(Order) + 1 WHERE Order = 0;
>
> Grab the stores sorted by Order.
>
> On 1/12/2009, at 10:09 AM, Super Steve wrote:
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> > I've got a client that wants to display on his website a list of
> > retail stores that stock his products.  To facilitate this we have all
> > of the store details in a MySQL database.
>
> > But rather than display all of the stores in alphabetical or location
> > order, my client wants to rotate the stores so each one gets a turn at
> > being at the top.  The idea is that at the beginning of each day the
> > store that was on the top yesterday will move to the bottom and all
> > the other stores move up one.  For the rest of the day the stores are
> > displayed in this order, i.e they maintain their positions for the
> > whole day.  Then next day the top one goes to the bottom and they all
> > move up one.
>
> > Does anyone have any idea on how I can achieve this?  I'm not looking
> > for actual PHP code, just pseudo code to get me on the right track.
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