doesn't look like your $keyword value contains anything. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Dunning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] OK SQL experts...
On Apr 23, 2004, at 10:13 AM, John Nichel wrote: > Brian Dunning wrote: >> I STFW and RTFM and I still can't figure out why this returns a 1064 >> parse error: >> SELECT * FROM 'my_table' WHERE ('field_1' LIKE '%$keyword%' OR >> 'field_2' LIKE '%$keyword%' OR 'field_3' LIKE '%$keyword%') AND >> 'status' = 'active'; >> Anyone? TIA! >> - B1ff Lamer > > What does mysql_error() tell you? You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''my_table' WHERE ('field_1' LIKE '%%' OR 'field2' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php