i am building a simple PM for my personal website where a user can join and send message to the registered users on my website, i am stuck in grouping and selecting latest user (by latest msg time) in INBOX page my table : id msg_from msg_to msg date in_del out_del i want to show latest user's id each in a group here is my SQL query : SELECT ttalk.id, ttalk.msg_from, users.first_name, users.last_name FROM ttalk INNER JOIN users ON ttalk.msg_from = users.id WHERE ttalk.msg_to = '$_SESSION[user_id]' AND ttalk.in_del='0' GROUP BY ttalk.msg_from DESC LIMIT 500 Thanks in advance :-)