Re: Combining Fields

Grae Wolfe - PHP wrote:

Thank you Brad - That is what I was looking for, but now that I see how it behaves, I am thinking that it isn't going to work the way I wanted. I need to then be able to pass the "ID" back to MySQL so that it will retrieve just the one record for editing. I guess I need to go back to making the DB create an auto-incrementing ID number. Hmmm... Thanks!! Well, the unique ID would probably be the *best* way to go, but you could also get the record with the below solution, of course this requires every combination of first and last name is unique...

if you do: $id = "Smith,Adam" Then: list($fname, $lname) = explode(",",$id); select * from table where first_name = '$fname' and last_name='$lname' would do the trick... Of course this has many "what-ifs" asociated with it...all of which would be taken care of with an auto-incrementing/primary key ID field for wach record ;-) -Brad

"Brad Bonkoski" <bbonkoski@mediaguide.com> wrote in message news:447DF244.1070705@mediaguide.com...

Grae Wolfe - PHP wrote:

Good Day! I am trying to use my limited knowledge to create a VERY simple process to display some of the information in my table, allow a particular record to be selected, then opened on a page with text boxes to edit the information, after which the UPDATE command will be used to update the database. That being said, I have a way that I think this will work, but I don't have a unique record number in my table for each of the entries. I have tried getting PHPMyAdmin to set this up, but I cannot seem to make it work. SO - I need to try to create that ID on the fly. I figured I could just combine the first and last names to make this ID, but I am not sure what the syntax should be. Here is the code I have dealing with defining the variables... Any help or thoughts would be splendid! while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $id = $row['last_name'],$row['first_name']; $fname = $row['first_name']; $lname = $row['last_name']; $option_block .= "<option value=\"$id\">$lname, $fname</option>";

Use the dot (.) for appending variables... so it would be: $id = $row['last_name'].$row['first_name']; ...or course if you want that would look like this: 'SmithAdam' if you want 'Smith,Adam' as your id then: $id = $row['last_name'].",".$row['first_name']; -Brad