On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, [iso-8859-1] César Aracena wrote:
> Thanks. I must apology as I made a mistake when writing the incoming > variable's name. I had it wrong so it would pass the variable but the > incoming script was looking for a variable that wasn't passed. In the > meantime, and now that I correct that, I'm still comparing artid to > '$artid' (with single quotes) and it does it well... it is an int(4) > field and now that you mention it... how is it possible? MySQL lets you compare numbers and strings pretty liberally: mysql> create table foo (x int, y double); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec) mysql> insert into foo values (1, 3.1415); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.09 sec) mysql> select * from foo where x = '1'; +------+--------+ | x | y | +------+--------+ | 1 | 3.1415 | +------+--------+ 1 row in set (0.01 sec) mysql> select * from foo where y like '3.14%'; +------+--------+ | x | y | +------+--------+ | 1 | 3.1415 | +------+--------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
