I'm very new to all this and am trying to get a backend news page to update a DB in the following manner.

I have both up and down buttons which I want to use to change the order in which the news item appears in the DB(unique key: newsID).

Each item is shown like:
|-------------------------------------------------|
| news date | news name | up / dn / edit |
|-------------------------------------------------|
| news date | news name | up / dn / edit |
|-------------------------------------------------|

The up / dn buttons are what I want to use to change the newsID.

I'm sure there's probably a simple code snippet I apply to the form buttons(up/dn), but I'm not sure what that is. do you?

thanks in advance for your help.

Edited by - NEWflavour on 02 Dec 2001 16:49:28

alright, i know this kinda violates UD's scripting but this is how i did mine

if the up/down is a button or list menu, assign the value of up to ASC and down to DESC. Then request the value to order the db.
For instance,


<%
Dim how
how = Request.QueryString("order"
If (how <> "" then
stg = Request.QueryString("order"
Else
how = "ASC" ' <b>&lt;&lt;-- default order is ascending
</b>
End If
%&gt;
&lt;%
set allmembers = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset"
allmembers.ActiveConnection = MM_nsa_STRING
allmembers.Source = "SELECT * FROM Members ORDER BY " + how <b>'&lt;&lt;&lt;--This is how the db would be read </b>
allmembers.CursorType = 0
allmembers.CursorLocation = 2
allmembers.LockType = 3
allmembers.Open()
allmembers_numRows = 0
%&gt;

did that help?


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Edited by - dloverinu on 02 Jan 2002 20:44:15

Edited by - dloverinu on 02 Jan 2002 20:45:05

Edited by - dloverinu on 02 Jan 2002 20:46:25