Re: [PHP-DB] do table alias's work in PHP?

2001-05-16 Thread Johannes Janson
Hi, The following statement will not work: $sql = select * from sometable t1, sometable t2 where t1.field1 = t2.field2; do you get an error? It should work. Johannes -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [PHP-DB] do table alias's work in PHP?

2001-05-16 Thread cameron walker
It's hard to comprehend how this is a MySQL problem as my SQL commands work perfectly when entered at the command line. This fact is a pretty strong pointer to PHP being the culprit. Why empirical test would suggest otherwise? CC Zona wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP-DB] do table alias's work in PHP?

2001-05-16 Thread cameron walker
My specific return is Couldnt execute query : select dtype, dloc, iprice from descriptions d, items i where d.iid = i.iid ; If I reduce this to select dtype, dloc, iprice from descriptions d, items where descriptions.iid = items.iid;

Re: [PHP-DB] do table alias's work in PHP?

2001-05-16 Thread Johannes Janson
I'm not sure but couldn't it really be that this is due to the MySQL version? PHP is just passing a string which is then executed by MySQL. I think I recall having no problems with aliases. I don't quite remember which version it was but I think it was 3.23.*. Now I am using a shareware version

Re: [PHP-DB] do table alias's work in PHP?

2001-05-16 Thread CC Zona
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (cameron walker) wrote: It's hard to comprehend how this is a MySQL problem as my SQL commands work perfectly when entered at the command line. This fact is a pretty strong pointer to PHP being the culprit. Why empirical test would suggest

Re: [PHP-DB] do table alias's work in PHP?

2001-05-16 Thread Rick St Jean
you have to specify what table you are selecting each of the fields from select dtype, dloc, iprice from descriptions d, items i where d.iid = i.iid ; should be select d.dtype, d.dloc, i.iprice from descriptions d, items i where d.iid = i.iid ; At 03:49 PM