thanks all, very helpful!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brady Mitchell" <bradym@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "benifactor" <snorris17@xxxxxxx>; "php" <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 1:21 PM
Subject: RE: deleting muliple feilds from a table using an array
> -----Original Message-----
> example code:
> //implode the value of the submitted form
> //$del will look like 38, 40, 43
> $del = implode(",", $idd);
> //create query for the deletion of values from submited form
> $query = "delete From news where id = '$del'";
> //execute query
> mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
> //echo sucess message
> echo("<b><center>The Post has been deleted...</b></center>");
>
>
> here is what my problem is...
>
> This code will only delete the first value of $idd. what i
> think is wrong is i have the incorrect syntax to delete
> multiple feilds from a table if some one can help me it would
> be greatly appreactiated.
$query = "delete From news where id IN($del)";
Take a look at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/where-optimizations.html. The
user comments are helpful.
Brady
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