Michael Stassen wrote:
Sebastian wrote:
i have a query with 3 union selects:
SELECT id, 'news' AS type, .... FROM news
UNION
SELECT id, 'faq' AS type, .... FROM faq
UNION
SELECT id, 'forum' AS type, .... FROM forum
which works just fine and selects everything from all 3 tables.. but
say i want to make a condition to only select from either 'faq' ,
'news' or 'forum' how can i do this?
example, if a user visits a link suck as: page.php?cat=faq it will
only select from 'faq' .. is this possible to do right in the query?
when there is no ?cat= then all three selects run.
makes sense? i am stuck on this for a few days already.
thanks.
Why don't you do this in your app? If cat is set, issue the
appropriate single-table query, otherwise issue the union. Surely
that would be simpler than trying to build one multi-purpose query.
Michael
I was hoping i could do some crazy thing like WHERE type = 'faq' so i
can do it all from one block of code.
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