On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:27:26 +0200, Phpu <phpu@xxxxx> wrote: > I have an array named $ex_array. > > I want to search the database and find those ids that are different from the values in $ex_array. > > I use this but didn't work > > $sql = "SELECT product_id FROM products WHERE product_id <> '$ex_array' " ; $sql = " SELECT product_id FROM products WHERE product_id NOT IN ( " . implode( ', ', $ex_array ) . " ) "; This question would be more appropriate for the php-db list. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://gdconsultants.com/ http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php