Select from a select statement from a defined value - mysql

Question

I've the following table structure:
id |name |date
1 a 2012-01-01
2 a 2011-01-01
3 a 2010-01-01
4 a 2014-01-01
5 a 2011-01-01
I'd like to perform a select order by date (desc), and after select the first 3 rows from the results by a condition which would be where id = 1. So the second part of the query would be "give me the first 3 rows starting from the row whose id equals to 1"
EDIT:
After the first "part" the result would be:
SELECT id, name, date FROM table ORDER BY date DESC
id |name |date
4 a 2014-01-01
1 a 2012-01-01
2 a 2011-01-01
5 a 2011-01-01
3 a 2010-01-01
After the second part it should look like this (so the first 3 after the row whose id is 1):
id |name |date
2 a 2011-01-01
5 a 2011-01-01
3 a 2010-01-01
I have no any idea how could I solve it, please help me.
EDIT:
This is the concrete code I'd like to re-write:
SELECT `id`, `questions`.`userid`, `categories`.`name`, `user`.`username`, `title`,
`details`, `date` FROM `questions`
LEFT JOIN `user`
ON `questions`.`userid` = `user`.`userid`
LEFT JOIN `categories`
ON `questions`.`categoryid` = `categories`.`categoryid`
ORDER BY `date` DESC LIMIT 10

Answer 1

SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE date < (SELECT date FROM table WHERE id = 1)
ORDER BY date DESC
LIMIT 3

Answer 2

This isn't pretty because MySQL doesn't support row_number() or common table expressions, but it should work. Basically, get the row number ordered by the date, then select those whose row number is greater than an arbitrary value (in this case 1). Finally use limit to select the number of records you want.
SELECT id, name, mydate
FROM (
SELECT id, name, mydate, #rn:=#rn+1 rn
FROM mytable, (select #rn:=0) t
ORDER BY mydate DESC
) t2
WHERE rn > (
select rn
from (
SELECT id, name, mydate, #rn:=#rn+1 rn
FROM mytable, (select #rn:=0) t
ORDER BY mydate DESC
) t2
where id = 1
)
LIMIT 3
SQL Fiddle Demo

Answer 3

This is what you want to do... if finds the first id thats equal to 4 and then selects those out. then limit the offset to go to the next row and pull out 3
SELECT id, name, m_date from(
SELECT id, name, m_date, #a := id, if(#a = 4, #b := 1, #b) AS join_id
FROM test
join(SELECT #a := 0, #b := 0) t
ORDER BY m_date DESC
) AS tt
WHERE join_id = 1
LIMIT 1,3
SELECT temp.`id`, temp.`userid`, `categories`.`name`, `user`.`username`, temp.`title`,
temp.`details`, temp.`date` FROM (
SELECT `id`, `categoryid`, `details`, `title`, `userid`, `date`, #a := id, if(#a = 11, #b := 1, #b) AS join_id
FROM `questions`
join(SELECT #a := 0, #b := 0) t
ORDER BY `date` DESC
) as temp
LEFT JOIN `user`
ON temp.`userid` = `user`.`userid`
LEFT JOIN `categories`
ON temp.`categoryid` = `categories`.`categoryid`
WHERE join_id = 1
LIMIT 1,10;
SEE FIDDLE for clarification