On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:06:40 -0700, Ben Galin <news@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Regarding this code:
> [PHP code]
> // This works
> $name="name";
> $table="mytable";
> $mysql_connect("localhost","","") or die("Error: ".mysql_error());
> $mysql_select_db("mydb") or die("Error: ".mysql_error());
> $mysql_query("INSERT INTO $table (`id`,`name`) VALUES ('','$name')");
> [/PHP code]
>
> I want to define() TABLE as a constant instead of using the variable
> $table
>
> [PHP code]
> // This runs without an error but does *not* insert a new row
> $name="name";
> define("TABLE", "mytable");
> $mysql_connect("localhost","","") or die("Error: ".mysql_error());
> $mysql_select_db("mydb") or die("Error: ".mysql_error());
> $mysql_query("INSERT INTO TABLE (`id`,`name`) VALUES ('','$name')");
> [/PHP code]
>
> Changing the query line to
> $mysql_query("INSERT INTO `TABLE` (`id`,`name`) VALUES ('','$name')");
Well, of course PHP isn't going to change your strings. That would be
a bit intrusive and make some things real hard to do. C won't even do
this. Here's what you want:
$mysql_query('INSERT INTO `'.TABLE.'` (`id`,`name`) VALUES ("","'.$name.'")');
> or
> $mysql_query("INSERT INTO 'TABLE' (`id`,`name`) VALUES ('','$name')");
> has no effect.
>
> I also tried to
> define("TABLE", "`mytable`");
> which, too, didn't work.
>
> Would appreciate any advice,
> Ben
>
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