ID:               27369
 User updated by:  nospam at webdragon dot net
 Reported By:      nospam at webdragon dot net
-Status:           Bogus
+Status:           Open
 Bug Type:         Documentation problem
 Operating System: Linux (Fedora Core 1)
 PHP Version:      Irrelevant
 New Comment:

on the contrary, what's changed is _clarity_



it's either this, or TWO SQL queries, thus: 



  1. Query with duplicate field names

  SELECT t1.field, t2.field FROM t1, t2



  2. Query with aliased duplicate field names

  SELECT t1.field AS foo, t2.field AS bar FROM t1, t2



since the Query presented in the existing docs is quite obviously one
that does _not_ have duplicate field names in the result, since they
are _already aliased in the example presented_, therefore the requested
change. It presents the information in a slightly clearer manner with a
minimum of additional bytes of info and is less confusing. 



Lest you forget, this documentation is not for people who already KNOW
what you're talking about intimately. It's for people who haven't got a
clue (or haven't had their coffee yet). The more clearly you can
present your instructions, the fewer stupid questions and confused
users you'll have. QED


Previous Comments:
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[2004-02-23 15:05:19] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I don't see any interess in this patch, as nothing is changed.

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[2004-02-23 13:07:55] nospam at webdragon dot net

Description:
------------
Following is a patch to the documentation to make the aliasing issue
slightly clearer. I (in my caffeine deprived state) not only failed to
realize that you were referring to aliasing via mysql, but didn't
notice that the query below was doing that very thing in mysql. 



This patch makes this slightly clearer. (hopefully linewrapping won't
bollix this)





Reproduce code:
---------------
--- function.mysql-fetch-array.html     2004-02-08 16:43:54.000000000
-0500

+++ function.mysql-fetch-array.new.html 2004-02-23 13:08:26.000000000
-0500

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@

 ></A

 ><P

 ><B

->Example 1. Query with duplicate field names</B

+>Example 1. Query with aliased duplicate field names</B

 ></P

 ><TABLE

 BORDER="0"

@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@

 ><TD

 ><PRE

 CLASS="sql"

->select table1.field as foo, table2.field as bar from table1,
table2</PRE

+>SELECT table1.field AS foo, table2.field AS bar FROM table1,
table2</PRE

 ></TD

 ></TR

 ></TABLE

@@ -432,4 +432,4 @@

 ></DIV

 ></BODY

 ></HTML

->

\ No newline at end of file

+>



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