Re: PHP/MySQL Question

LIKE is a very good option. You can use: LIKE \n'$id'\n; Or similar, where \n stands for the Mysql carriage return 'symbol'. Also, you may try selecting the whole text field, explod()ing contents by carriage returns and checking with in_array() for the id if the above doesn't works. -- Julio Nobrega A hora está chegando: http://toca.sourceforge.net "Peter Brown" <peter@outputdsj.com.au> wrote in message news:002401c16b3a$c51382f0$850ca8c0@peter... > HI, > > New to PHP/MySQL, > > I was wondering if this was possible. > > I have a users database with an auto-incremented userID field. > > I have another message database (it's a message board database) - one of > the fields is a TEXT field with userIDs separated by carriage returns; > eg; if on one record userID 2 and userID 4 have both viewd that record, > the data in that field will look as follows: > > 2 > 4 > > I want to construct a SQL query for every user that logs in (I am > storing their userID as a session variable) so that I can filter out any > messages where a user has already viewed that record. So in the above > example that record should be filtered out if user 2 or user 4 has > viewed the record. > > The query I constructed is: > > SELECT * FROM messages WHERE userID != '$userid' > > But this will not filter out any records like the one above where the > userID in the message database is separaed by carriage returns as above > (ie; it won't filter out messages for user 2 or user 4). > > Hope this makes sense > Peter >