Julian, The "as" field is just setting the name of the field or column. For example in PHP, if you donīt use the "as somename", you must use array[2] (I just use 2 as an example) instead of array['datefield'] to get the information.
Regards, Ingvar G Web accounting & CRM us.logiledger.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "julian haffegee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 2:55 PM Subject: Re: date_format > Thanks this works!!!! > > the difference was the 'AS datefield' > what is this bit doing? I searched for AS (in the SELECT description in my > book) but it does not mention it; though I have seen it in examples. I like > to understand why I use the code I do... > > I looked at http://www.mysql.com/ but can find no mention. Am I searching > for the wrong thing? I searched for AS in the documentation > thanks again Jules > > > > > > You may want to try: > > > > $result = mysql_query("SELECT title, description, url, author, > > date_format(datefield, '%M %D %Y') AS datefield FROM documents"); > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
