Thanks for all the advice, I thought it might have something to do with being a reserved word. I changed the table name from group to grps, and everything works fine now. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Bryant [mailto:rob@3jar.com] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 11:39 AM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: Query Help... ----- Original Message ----- From: "NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)" <sn4265@sbc.com> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:23 AM Subject: Query Help... > I am having a lot of trouble with a query that works fine from a > basic SQL command line, but fails in my web script. Here is the portion of > code including the query: > > mysql_select_db($database, $Prod); > $query_groups = "SELECT name FROM group"; > $groups = mysql_query($query_groups, $Prod) or die(mysql_error()); > > Here is the error I am receiving: > > You have an error in your SQL syntax near '"group"' at line 1 > Have you tried using backticks in your query? E.g., $query_groups = "SELECT name FROM `group`"; -- rob -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php