On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, boclair wrote:
> This is simple but I cannot see where I am going wrong
>
> I have a table members with one of the fields
> status, varchar(10)
>
> The values may be active or retired or deceased or null
>
> If I run the select
>
> SELECT * FROM members WHERE status = 'deceased';
>
> I get MySQL said: You have an error in your SQL syntax near
> '\'deceased\';' at line 1
>
> Will somebody show me the correct syntax
>
> Tim Morris
>
>
>
you need to pass the quotes to mysql, hence you have to backslash them in
the php code. Try :
$query="SELECT * FROM members WHERE status = \"deceased\"";
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Ben
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