Yes I have checked that $last_mailing_date contains a date. I was wrong, It doesn't work when it is live. I had only ran the first query before I added the "AND NOT" portion, sorry. Ron > > I am trying to write a query to select a trivia question, but I don't want > the trivia question category to be the same two days in a row so I added a > second "SELECT" syntax to find out what category was used yesterday. This > works when I test it "live", but doesn't work when it is part of a cron > job. How do I get the value of `Bible_trivia_category_reference` from the > second SELECT query to be used in the first? What change is needed? Ron > > SELECT * FROM `verse_of_the_day_Bible_trivia` WHERE `assigned_date` = > '0000-00-00' AND `seasonal_use` = $bible_trivia_application AND `live` =1 > AND NOT `Bible_trivia_category_reference` = ( SELECT > `Bible_trivia_category_reference` FROM `verse_of_the_day_Bible_trivia` > WHERE `assigned_date` = '$last_mailing_date' LIMIT 1 ) ORDER BY RAND() > LIMIT 1 > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
