Don't think that was the question...?

Ian Ferger wrote:

> $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
> >
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> >
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> >
> >   Russ Michell
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