Use settype() on the variable prior to concatenation. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.settype.php Edward Dudlik Becoming Digital www.becomingdigital.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kieu D. Trang" <kdtrang@loyno.edu> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, 14 May, 2003 10:13 Subject: passing reserved words as a string to mySQL hi all... I am having a problem passing the reserved word "IF" as a string... I am concatenating a query string in which includes "IF (something is not NUL, blah, blah, blah) as name" but the string is always 0 since it evaluate the if statement before concatenating it to the $query_string... I don't know how to pass this problem... your advise is appreciated. thanks, KD -- 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
