As far as I'm aware, in php you can only do one statement per call. Terry
----------Original Message--------- > Hi there, > > When i try to do the following in PHP I get errors. Is this not > permitted or is this due to a setting somewhere? Can i do only one SQL > statement per call to mysql_query? > > $sql = "CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp > SELECT field1_index, field2_index FROM test_table WHERE field1_index = > '1'; > INSERT INTO tmp > SELECT field1_index, field2_index FROM test_table WHERE field2_index = > '1'; > SELECT * from tmp; > DROP TABLE tmp;"; > > $res = mysql_query($sql); > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]