On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:52:18PM -0800, Steve Edberg wrote: > >That means no field exists or should exist in the database. I only want to > >generate at query time. > >I can't use an autoincrement field since that wont work very well with > >results that are returned out of order and maybe not with all the data. > > > >Using variables is the best response to my question. I just dislike using > >them cause they are ugly to work with because of the session persistance > >and because I have to issue multiple queries to do the job.
If the value isn't being used to even select a row, why not wrap the lines with <OL>...results...</OL> or perhaps just use PHP/Perl/? to do an $i++ for display? Why put this in the query at all, if it has nothing to do with the data? -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
