You're right Andrew, got a little ahead of myself :o) Martin Clifford Homepage: http://www.completesource.net Developer's Forums: http://www.completesource.net/forums/
>>> "Andrew Brampton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/15/02 03:23PM >>> Shouldn't this be "UPDATE header SET parent='$this->parent' WHERE posted = max(posted)" Otherwise the max(posted) = max(posted) is true for all records (therefore all records get updated) Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Clifford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 8:11 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] newbie: mysql statement I would rewrite the query as: "UPDATE header SET parent='$this->parent' WHERE max(posted) = max(posted)" -- 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