On Wednesday 10 November 2004 15:37, Stuart Felenstein wrote: > --- Jason Wong <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why not build your sql query according to whether or > > not whatever you want is > > selected or not. That way debugging is easier as > > you won't be looking at > > queries that contain redundant "... AND 0 ...". > > Jason, How would I do that ? Care to share a short > exmaple ? A simplistic pseudo-code version: $sql = "SELECT <blah> WHERE 1"; if ($something = "selected") { $sql .= "AND something"; } ... ... $sql .= "... rest of query"; Anyway, someone has already posted a more detailed example. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Hmm... Which would do a better job at driving physicists crazy? Travel faster than light, or a floating-point boolean value? -- Michael Mol */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php