Thanks all for replying... i figured it out... it wasn't the reserved word... my mistake was i didn't escape some of the characters in my if statement... KD On Wed, 14 May 2003, Becoming Digital wrote: > 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 > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
