Re: Looking for specific data

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Sweet. I can work with that.
Thanks!

Chris wrote:
> DeadTOm wrote:
>> There has to be an easier way to do this. I have a page with a list of
>> 29 options utilizing checkboxes. The options that are checked get put
>> into a mysql table as a 1 and the options not checked get entered as
>> a 0.
>>
>> So the table looks like this
>>
>> id    cs01     cs02     cs03     cs04
>>
>> 1        0         0             1         0
>>
>> 2         1        0             0         0
>>
>> 3         0        0             0         1
>>
>>
>> The problem I'm running into is getting these things back out of the
>> table. I only want the columns where the answer is a 1.
>
> Try this?
>
> [ requires mysql 4.0+ ]
>
> select id, 'cs01' as column_name from table where cs01='1' union all
> select id, 'cs02' as column_name from table where cs02='1' union all
> select id, 'cs03' as column_name from table where cs03='1' union all
> select id, 'cs04' as column_name from table where cs04='1';
>

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