Re: PHP/MySQL noob rides again.. into trouble

Paul, Paul Jinks wrote: > David Grant wrote: >> $SQLQuery = "SELECT * FROM project WHERE projTitle = '" . >> $HTTP_GET_VARS['projTitle'] . "'"; > > Yep, that fixed it. Thanks. I had a feeling there was a mix up with the > "s and 's. What's with the . s? The . is a concatenation operator, i.e. it joins two strings together. >> Not sure why you've got the or die() there. > > I had the idea that you could put an or die() after any command and it > would tell you that it had screwed up at that point. Bad idea? Bit hard to maintain I should think. It's unlikely you're going to screw up a string concatenation and it still be able to call the die(). Cheers, David -- David Grant http://www.grant.org.uk/