He's not including the ; in the SELECT statement. The ; you're seeing is at end of the PHP statement
-----Original Message----- From: Matt Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:02 PM To: 'ROBERT MCPEAK'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] parse error, mysql select It doesn't like the ";" at the end of the statement. I noticed this a while ago. I'd prefer if it didn't choke on the ";" but it seems to. It's probably more correct to have the ";" there - I don't know why it chokes when going through php. Matt Friedman Web Applications Developer www.SpryNewMedia.com -----Original Message----- From: ROBERT MCPEAK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday April 1, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] parse error, mysql select When I execute from browser I get a parse error, but when I enter the query directly into a MySQL command prompt I get a successful return. Can anybody see the problem with this code: $query = "SELECT DATE_FORMAT( exp_date, "%W, %M %d, %Y") AS thedate from tifrequest where user='$user' limit 1,1"; Thanks! My eyes are shot! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
