Anything wrong with SELECT * FROM story WHERE approved = 1 AND newsId != $newsId AND editionId = $eid ORDER BY newsSortOrder ASC
dan mccullough sr. engineer url: heathermccullough.com tf: 866.298.3991 w: 603.444.9808 ________________________________ There is no such thing as a problem, unless the servers are on fire. Sometimes great opportunity comes brilliantly disguised as bad news. -----Original Message----- From: John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] get all except 1 Dan McCullough wrote: > Haven't done this in a while, but here is my question. > I have 4 stories, and you land on the story page where one story is shown > and on the side there is a listing of the other 3 stories that are active in > that edition. > So what I would like to do in one query is get the three that are not shown > on that page. > > So can I do something like > > $story_sql="SELECT * FROM story WHERE approved = 1 AND editionId = $eid > EXCEPT nid = $nid"; > > $nid is the id of the story whos detail page we are on SELECT * FROM story WHERE approved = 1 AND editionID = $eid AND nid <> $nid -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals - www.phparch.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php