[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy B) wrote in
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> hi...
>
> is it better to give the mysql query string to a variable instead of
> directly doing it with mysql_query?
>
> i.e.
> $query="select * from table";//is this a better way?
> $query=mysql_query("select * from table");//or is this way
> //better?
> mysql_query("select * from table");//not a good idea i dont think...
It's useful for debugging - you can then just echo your query and in
conjunction with mysql_error() determine where problems lie.
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