I use the following code to order the results of the query by the variable $order.
$result = mysql_query("SELECT
articles.title,vote.votes,vote.total,articles.date,staff.firstname,articles.content,articles.id
FROM staff,articles,vote WHERE articles.authorid = staff.id AND articles.id =
vote.item ORDER BY `$order` DESC",$db);
I assign the variable a value according to my url,
http://www.mysite.com/file.php?order=something
My question is. Is there a way of assigning the $order variable a default value? Like
if they hit http://www.mysite.com/file.php without the order=something can I tell the
script to assign $order a default value?
Thanks,
Nate
