RE: [PHP-DB] Math and mySQL

see intersperesed comments bastien

From: "Ron Piggott" <ron.php@actsministries.org> To: "PHP DB" <php-db@lists.php.net> Subject: [PHP-DB] Math and mySQL Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 05:51:44 -0500 Is there any way of retreiving the last record of a mySQL table where I may specify one of the values in it? I know the SELECT command and just for example the field I know could be serial_number = 30612312-ABDEFG --- I have the serial_number field set as a varchar.

yes, you can do a select on the table to get that record

Part two of my question is how do you do math in PHP? I want to take the running_total (another field in the table) and add or subtract what the user has typed in.

assign the value to a variable and simply add/substract/etc between the two values

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