Posted by Howard on 02/18/06 00:45

Thanks for the Help to All,

All your code was a lot easier to follow than the books. A lot cleaner.
Begs the question why they wrote it that way??

So It's working and I'm even on to getting phpMyAdmin working to make life
easier.

Howard


"Gary L. Burnore" <gburnore@databasix.com> wrote in message
news:dstmk4$1mt$1@blackhelicopter.databasix.com...
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:44:19 GMT, "Dave Mennenoh"
> <dave@blurredistinction.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>>>>$query = select * from books where ".$searchtype." like
>>>>'%".$searchterm."%'" ;
>>
>>Besides missing the leading quotation mark, you might like to know that
>>you
>>don't need to do concatenation like this using PHP - so you can simply do
>>this:
>>
>>$query = select * from books where $searchtype like '%$searchterm%'" ;
>
> You have a mismatched double quote. :)
>
>>weird huh!
>
> I always thought so.
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