On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 01:58 PM, Phil Schwarzmann wrote:
> Is this query legal....? > > $query = "UPDATE table SET (var1, var2, var3) VALUES ($var1, $var2, > $var3) WHERE username='$username'"; No. The SET modifier (or whatever that is) can only be used to create column name/value relationship pairs. To my knowledge, your syntax above (which looks similar to INSERT INTO table (..., ..., ...) VALUES (..., ..., ...)) cannot be used for UPDATE statements. > Im wondering cause I have an INSERT query.... > > $query = "INSERT INTO table (var1, var2, var3) VALUES ($var1, $var2, > $var)"; > > ...but only there are like 150 different variables and it will take me > forever to write a query like.... > > $query = "UPDATED table SET var1='$var1', var2='$var2', var3='$var3' > WHERE username='$username'"; If you have shell access to your database server, you can always CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE and test things out on a small scale, then DROP TABLE when you're done playing. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
