Sorry to be a bother, but I've been working on this problem for three days with no succcess.
I store the result(s) of a multiple select listbox in a MySQL version 4.0.2 varchar field i.e. 2,3,4,5,6 as a selection example. -> these results are stored in the table category under the field name category_common. What I'm trying to do is to use the the the above results in a query such as follows: The column content.content_common has the values of 2 and 3 and 4 in different rows. I've enclosed category.category_common in parentheses () which as I understand should treat category.category_common as a list. My question is the following query something that MySQL can render regarding the content.content_common IN (category.category_common) statement or am I doing something very wrong? Once again, when I manually type in (2,3,4) in place of (category.category_common), I get the right answer. How can I convert (category.category_common) into a list MySQL can understand? ************************************************************************************************************************************* Select content_title, content_category, content_order, content_name1 from content, category where category.category_id = 'Intbk' AND content.content_common IN (category.category_common) Order by content.content_order ************************************************************************************************************************************ My platform is as follows: W2k professional, tomcat 4.1.12, J2SDK 1.4.1, MySQL 4.0.2, mysql-connector-java-3.0.0 Once again, Thanks for any help. Happy Holidays, Lenny Sorey --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
