Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions

2004-09-06 Thread anirudh dutt
Well, I have this: $result=mysql_query('SELECT * FROM $table ORDER BY lastname, street, housenum ASC'); if u're trying to use variables like $table in the query (which i think u are), they need to be in double quotes : not single quotes. so the line should be:

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions

2004-09-05 Thread Pete Holsberg
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Torsten Roehr wrote: mysql_query() will return a result set. There are different functions to extract the rows from it. I would recommend mysql_fetch_assoc() - it returns an associative array of the current row/record set where the field names of your table become the

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions

2004-09-05 Thread Pete Holsberg
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Pete Holsberg wrote: Well, I have this: $result=mysql_query('SELECT * FROM $table ORDER BY lastname, street, housenum ASC'); while ($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo $row['lastname'].' '.$row['firstname'].' '.$row['housenum'].' '.$row['street']; } and

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions

2004-09-05 Thread Pete Holsberg
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Pete Holsberg wrote: blush I have to learn to keep a 3x5 card with my column headings nearby!! But having corrected that, I'm running into another problem. Additional blushing CASE-SENSITIVITY, Dummy! ;-) sigh -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions

2004-09-04 Thread Pete Holsberg
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Hutchins, Richard wrote: -Original Message- From: Pete Holsberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 11:59 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Torsten Roehr wrote: I

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions

2004-09-04 Thread Torsten Roehr
SELECT firstname, lastname, address FROM TABLENAME ORDER BY lastname ASC; Use ASC or DESC to order your query results. When you iterate over the result as Torsten indicated, everything will be in the order you specify. In the database table itself, right? Does it make more sense to do

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions

2004-09-04 Thread Pete Holsberg
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Torsten Roehr wrote: SELECT firstname, lastname, address FROM TABLENAME ORDER BY lastname ASC; Use ASC or DESC to order your query results. When you iterate over the result as Torsten indicated, everything will be in the order you specify. In the database

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions

2004-09-03 Thread Pete Holsberg
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Torsten Roehr wrote: I think I need just a little push in the right direction. After I send the above SELECT command, how do I get the result to appear on a web page? mysql_query() will return a result set. There are different functions to extract the rows from it. I

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions

2004-09-03 Thread Hutchins, Richard
for all the information you'll ever need on sorting and/or grouping results from a query. Rich -Original Message- From: Pete Holsberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 11:59 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions On Thu, 2 Sep

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions

2004-09-02 Thread Pete Holsberg
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Pete Holsberg wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Torsten Roehr wrote: Pete Holsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to set up a directory with the following fields: surname firstname spousename housenumber street phone

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions

2004-09-02 Thread Torsten Roehr
Pete Holsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Pete Holsberg wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Torsten Roehr wrote: Pete Holsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to set up a directory with the following

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie Questions

2004-09-01 Thread Pete Holsberg
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Torsten Roehr wrote: Hi Peter, please see my comments below: Pete Holsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm just getting started with PHP and MySQL (how do you say that, my ess kew wll, my sequel, ???). my ess kew wll is the correct