Sorry! just read-read my post, it should have been: ....particular column ('modified') *NOT* to appear under specific circumstances, somewhere along...
Cheers. Russ On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:03:09 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Russ Michell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there everyone: > > I have a genericphp/MySQL search+retrival mechanism. Generic in that it takes table >names, > fieldnames and fieldtypes as form lables and element names. However, because of this >I cannot > hard-code my SQL queries as they need to be as generic (univerally useful) as >possible. > > I therefore have a lot of "SELECT * FROM <table_name>..." queries. However I would >like to be able > to specify a particular column ('modified') to appear under specific circumstances, >somewhere along > the lines of: "SELECT *,!modified FROM <table_name> .." I scanned TFM and couldn't >find anything > specific to my problem. I have an incling this may not be as easy as I think, so >does anyone know > of a bodge,kludge or workaround?? > > Thanks for your time. > Russ > > #-------------------------------------------------------# > > "Believe nothing - consider everything" > > Russ Michell > Anglia Polytechnic University Webteam > Room 1C 'The Eastings' East Road, Cambridge > > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > w: www.apu.ac.uk/webteam > > www.theruss.com > > #-------------------------------------------------------# > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > #-------------------------------------------------------# "Believe nothing - consider everything" Russ Michell Anglia Polytechnic University Webteam Room 1C 'The Eastings' East Road, Cambridge e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.apu.ac.uk/webteam www.theruss.com #-------------------------------------------------------# -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]