On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 21:22 -0700, Scott Haneda wrote: > on 10/27/05 6:34 PM, Scott Haneda at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Right now, my update works as follows, and works fine, however, I want to do > > a condition to say if products.ship_status = 1 then set > > cart_test.shipping_status to 'now' else set it to 'soon' > > > > UPDATE cart_test, products > > SET cart_test.shipping_status = products.ship_status > > WHERE products.id = cart_test.product_id AND cart_test.session_id = '5511' > > > > Is this even possible, if so, can someone help me out a bit. > > Thanks > > I think I partly got it: > UPDATE cart, products > SET cart.ship_status = IF(products.ship_status = 1, 'now', 'soon') > WHERE products.id = cart.product_id AND > cart.session_id = "5511" > > However, I need a ELSE in there, I can not always assume other than '1' is > 'soon', is there some way to add in a ELSE?
Depends how many alternate branches you want. You could just nest another IF where 'soon' is. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene General Manager Album Limited e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.album.co.nz/ b: http://jbg.name/ p: 0800 4 ALBUM (0800 425 286) or +64 21 232 3303 a: PO Box 579, Christchurch 8015, New Zealand -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
