AFAIK phpMyAdmin uses backticks for table/field names, not single quotes ...
Friday, April 23, 2004, 5:22:35 PM, thus was written: > I tried it both ways - didn't make any difference (phpmyadmin adds the > single quotes when I was trying to use its sql function to debug, so I > figured what the hell)... > On Apr 23, 2004, at 8:27 AM, Edward Peloke wrote: >> why are the table and field names surrounded by single quotes? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Brian Dunning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:19 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [PHP] OK SQL experts... >> >> >> I STFW and RTFM and I still can't figure out why this returns a 1064 >> parse error: >> >> SELECT * FROM 'my_table' WHERE ('field_1' LIKE '%$keyword%' OR >> 'field_2' LIKE '%$keyword%' OR 'field_3' LIKE '%$keyword%') AND >> 'status' = 'active'; >> >> Anyone? TIA! >> >> - B1ff Lamer >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> >> > - Brian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
