PHP get first row from SQL database

Question

In a table I am developing, you can see that there is a person with the best known time. I would like to show it in my page, and so I used this code:

  $con=mysqli_connect("localhost","user","pass","database");

  if( $result2 = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT playername FROM 1_toad_circuit /*name of the table*/ LIMIT 0 , 30") ) {
      $row = mysqli_fetch_row($result2);
      printf ("%s \n", $row[0]);
    }

As output I am not getting Itoi6 (person with the best time), but I have Catfish (the first in alphabetical order). I have 3 columns as you can see on the picture ( link ).

I say that I am pretty new with SQL and I would like to know what do I have to fix.

Answer 1

You need to add an ORDER BY clause to your statement and then order by whichever field you are storing the times in.

For example, if you had a "time" field:

SELECT playername, time FROM 1_toad_circuit 
ORDER BY `time` ASC 
LIMIT 1