used is a column name, if you need to surround it use the back ticks (beow
the esc key, same button as the tilde (~). That is why it fails...it
shouldn't be req'd for the update, though the value may need to be quoted
depending on the col data type
Bastien
>From: "Ron Piggott" <ron.php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: "Ron Piggott" <ron.php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Webmaster" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: "PHP DB" <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: UPDATE command
>Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:47:31 -0400
>
>This is kind of interesting ...
>
>$query="SELECT * FROM quiettimequotation WHERE used = 0 ORDER BY RAND()
>LIMIT 1";
>
>works;
>
>$query="SELECT * FROM bibleverses WHERE 'used' = 0 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT
>1";
>
>doesn't! Having the ' around used makes that select command fail --- but
>the UPDATE command requires it!
>
>Thanks for those of you who responded to my question below. I am creating
>a
>mailing list for my web site that I am wanting each entry which is randomly
>selected from the database to only be used once and not be available again
>until the entire list has been used. I needed the UPDATE command to change
>the used column all back to 0 again once the last entry had been selected
>from the database. I think I like programming mySQL stuff :) Ron
>
>---
>
> >Does the UPDATE command only change one row or each occurance if the the
> >criteria repeat itself through the table?
>
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