Yes, the semi-colon is the command separator. Try it and echo $tempsql. Miles Thompson
At 09:16 AM 1/11/2002 +1100, Martin Towell wrote: >is this valid in PHP?? (haven't tried it myself yet...) > >$tempsql = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS count > FROM divisions"; > >maybe it needs to be on one line??? > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rick Emery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 8:39 AM >To: 'Erik Price'; PHP >Subject: RE: [PHP] does this work? > > >Show all your code. Did you open a connection to the MYSQL server? If so, >show the code. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Erik Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:29 PM >To: PHP >Subject: [PHP] does this work? > > >It seems that I have a "parse error" somewhere in the following code >(since that's the only code in my script, it's a test script): > >// arraytest.php >$tempsql = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS count > FROM divisions"; >$tempresult = mysql_query($tempsql, $db); >$temprow = mysql_fetch_array($tempresult); > >echo $temprow["count"]; > > >Yet, it works fine in the mysql client. Thus, I am led to believe that >PHP is not capable of constructing the same kinds of SQL statements that >can be constructed in the mysql client. Is this the case? > > >Erik > > >PS: what I am -really- trying to do is dynamically fill in a <select> >listbox with <options> that correspond to all of the records in a given >table. Like so: > ><form> > <select> > <?php > foreach >($record_id_and_record_name_pair_pulled_from_mysql_query) { > print("<option >value=\"${record_id}\">${record_name}</option>"); > } > ?> > </select> ></form> > >but I am unsure of how to grab multiple values from the mysql_query() >and load them into an array. Has anyone done this before? > > >-- >PHP General 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 General 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 General 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]
