On 02/14/2008 09:33:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> I admit, after making my post and taking a break, I had gotten a -> little ahead of myself when stating this problem. Basically, I had -> reached a point where I was able to get to @arr3, and couldn't figure -> the rest out; the previous stuff I figured out. I felt I needed to -> come up with some background info and perhaps it just made things -> more -> confusing. More significantly, I also didn't know much of the -> correct -> terminology/what things were called officially... -> -> If you're curious to know the background info (I wanted to make it as -> less specific as possible), I have a table in a MySQL database that -> contains a list of tailored information about other tables in that -> same database. Certain technicalities had forced me not to use -> InnoDB's and thus, I cannot use any foreign keys; the information -> within that table of tables is a way for me to automatically make -> those connections between tables. When I mentioned A and C in @arr1, -> A is a record that represents another table in that database, C -> likewise. B is also a record in the table, and there are references -> to A = B and B = C/they link together... -> -> Thus, if you're attempting to come up with a dynamic select query, -> you'll have to come up with some tricky coding to include all the -> tables that are given within the statement. ie, if you specify a -> field from one table, and a field from another, you'll have to -> specify -> something like this: SELECT A.field1, C.field1 FROM A, C; ->
i am not the expert but i do have to ask: nick, do you know what a "hash" is?
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