Php (skip to next record in database)?

Question

Is there a function in php that will skip to the next record in a database and return it to the page if the one its looping through is out of date?
Here is my senario.
I have 30 events in a database starting from January 10th 2012 through to December 20th 2012 listed by date - 2012-01-10, 2012-12-20 etc
On the websites home page I want to list the 3  'next' dates. Obviously January 10th has expired but is still listed in the database. The easiest option would be to delete the record from the data base I guess but was wondering if I can automate the process?
I can list the 3 dates starting with record one in the database with DW proprietary php code:
<?php do { ?>
<div class="event">
<?php
echo $row_rsEvents['event_date']."<br />";
echo $row_rsEvents['event_title'],"<br />";
echo $row_rsEvents['event_details'];
?>
</div><!-- end event -->
<?php } while ($row_rsEvents = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsEvents)); ?>
I can hide an expired date by comparing the date in the database with the current date
<?php
$date = date('Y-m-d');
?>
<?php do { ?>
<div class="event" <?php if($date > $row_rsEvents['event_date']) { echo " style='display: none;'"; }?>>
<?php
echo $row_rsEvents['event_date']."<br />";
echo $row_rsEvents['event_title'],"<br />";
echo $row_rsEvents['event_details'];
?>
</div><!-- end event -->
<?php } while ($row_rsEvents = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsEvents)); ?>
However that then just shows 2 dates as the code still loops through the records from the start of the database.
Any ideas or pointers?
Os

Answer 1

Murray *ACP* wrote:
You could also do it like this -
<?php do {
if(!$date > $row_rsEvents['event_date']) { ?>
<div class="event">
<?php
echo $row_rsEvents['event_date']."<br />";
echo $row_rsEvents['event_title'],"<br />";
echo $row_rsEvents['event_details'];
?>
</div><!-- end event -->
<?php } // end if ?>
<?php } while ($row_rsEvents = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsEvents)); ?>
When the date is not greater than the event date, the loop just falls through to the next fetch.
That just seems to kill any output. I tried a few loops within loops yesterday but could never stop the expired date from being selected for the database. First solution appears to have done the trick so I'm happy.