$table = "some_junk"; $resultset=mysql_query("select blah ,blah from $table");
"Russ Michell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:SIMEON.10112131209.A@k1c. anglia.ac.uk... > Hi there everyone: > > I have a genericphp/MySQL search+retrival mechanism. Generic in that it takes table names, > fieldnames and fieldtypes as form lables and element names. However, because of this I cannot > hard-code my SQL queries as they need to be as generic (univerally useful) as possible. > > I therefore have a lot of "SELECT * FROM <table_name>..." queries. However I would like to be able > to specify a particular column ('modified') to appear under specific circumstances, somewhere along > the lines of: "SELECT *,!modified FROM <table_name> .." I scanned TFM and couldn't find anything > specific to my problem. I have an incling this may not be as easy as I think, so does anyone know > of a bodge,kludge or workaround?? > > Thanks for your time. > Russ > > #-------------------------------------------------------# > > "Believe nothing - consider everything" > > Russ Michell > Anglia Polytechnic University Webteam > Room 1C 'The Eastings' East Road, Cambridge > > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > w: www.apu.ac.uk/webteam > > www.theruss.com > > #-------------------------------------------------------# > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]