My example was a litle confusing here I see. My table have multiple price columns. something like this:
carid convertible stationvagon etc. etc 1 100 100 100 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gurhan Ozen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Raymond Lilleodegard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:11 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Another dynamic sql. > Seems like it will NOT work because you are selecting $car which is already > chosen by the user (i.e. which is a known value). I don't know how you laid > out your table but shouldn't your query be something like "SELECT price from > FROM varetabell where carid=$car" ?? > > Gurhan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Raymond Lilleodegard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP-DB] Another dynamic sql. > > > Hi all! > > I have this form with some choices: > > <form> > Enter how many cars you want:<input type="text" name="number" > > <select size="1" name="car"> > <option selected>ford</option> > <option>bmw</option> > <option>mercedes</option> > </select> > > And then I am trying to get the price out of a table in my database with > this code: > > > $sql = mysql_query("SELECT '$car' FROM varetabell where carid='$carid' "); > $myrow= mysql_fetch_array($sql); > $x = $myrow["$car"]; > > $price = $x * $number; > > > Shouldn't this work? Or am I missing something here? > > > > Best regards Raymond > > > > -- > 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] > > -- 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]
